Practice - Protection Information in Page Table Entries
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Practice Questions
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What happens when a required virtual page is not in physical memory?
💡 Hint: Think about how the system responds to requesting an unavailable resource.
What is the purpose of protection bits in page table entries?
💡 Hint: Consider how the system protects crucial parts of its memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What occurs when there is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about how programs access memory and what happens when a page is not found.
True or False: Protection bits can allow a page to be read but not written to.
💡 Hint: Consider how to prevent unauthorized changes to critical program data.
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Challenge Problems
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Formulate a strategy to minimize page faults in a system with limited memory resources. What metrics will you use to measure the effectiveness of your strategy?
💡 Hint: Consider both memory efficiency and operational speed in your strategy.
Critically evaluate the trade-offs of using page sizes larger than 64 KB. What implications does this have for system performance and memory utilization?
💡 Hint: Think about how larger pages affect access patterns and the diversity of applications running concurrently.
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