Practice - Impact of Page Faults
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Practice Questions
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What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about memory access delays.
Why do we use larger page sizes?
💡 Hint: How does clustering data help?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during a memory access failure.
True or False: The larger the page size, the more page faults can occur.
💡 Hint: How does size influence data retrieval?
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Challenge Problems
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Consider a system using a page table with a page size of 8 KB and a process requiring 25 KB of memory. Calculate how many pages are needed and discuss the implications of internal fragmentation in this scenario.
💡 Hint: Think about how page sizes factor into overall memory usage.
Analyze how the choice of a replacement algorithm (e.g., LRU vs. FIFO) might affect a program with varying access patterns. What factors should be considered?
💡 Hint: Consider how memory usage is tracked over time.
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