Practice Page Tables And Address Translation (10.3) - Page Faults in Virtual Memory
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Page Tables and Address Translation

Practice - Page Tables and Address Translation

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Question 1 Easy

What is a page fault?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when data is missing.

Question 2 Easy

Explain what a page table does.

💡 Hint: Consider how virtual addresses are connected to physical memory.

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Question 1

What happens when a page fault occurs?

The page is fetched from memory
The page is fetched from secondary storage
The program crashes

💡 Hint: Consider what a page fault indicates about memory usage.

Question 2

True or False: Larger page sizes always lead to fewer page faults.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about memory efficiency and allocation.

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Challenge 1 Hard

A process has a virtual address space of 16 KB and uses a page size of 4 KB. How many pages does it require? If the last page has only 2 KB of actual data, calculate the internal fragmentation.

💡 Hint: Remember how to divide total size by page size.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a fully associative page table over a simpler mapping system.

💡 Hint: Consider operational efficiency versus complexity when appraising memory systems.

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