Practice - Page Size Considerations
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Practice Questions
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What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a virtual address is accessed but not found.
Why do we prefer larger page sizes in systems?
💡 Hint: Consider how much data we can load at once.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What happens during a page fault?
💡 Hint: Consider where data is stored when not found in immediate memory.
True or False: Larger page sizes always lead to more efficient memory use.
💡 Hint: Think about what happens if a process doesn't use all the allocated space.
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Challenge Problems
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You have a process requiring 22KB of data. If your page size is 8KB, how many pages do you need, and what is the internal fragmentation?
💡 Hint: Consider how full the last page is.
Describe how the use of large page sizes may affect different types of users such as gamers versus embedded system developers.
💡 Hint: Think about the context of performance versus efficiency.
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