Practice - Handling Page Faults
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Practice Questions
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What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about memory and data access.
Why do we use page tables?
💡 Hint: Consider their role in virtual memory management.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What triggers a page fault?
💡 Hint: Consider what conditions must exist for a page fault to happen.
True or False: Larger page sizes always lead to better performance.
💡 Hint: Think about the potential trade-offs in memory management.
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a system where a process needs to access 16KB of data but has a page size of 8KB. How many pages will be fetched, and what implications does this have for performance?
💡 Hint: Think about how total data size relates to page size.
How might the strategy of using larger page sizes backfire in a multi-tasking environment with numerous processes? Discuss the potential issues.
💡 Hint: Consider the balance of memory allocation in a shared environment.
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