Practice - Memory Hierarchy
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Practice Questions
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What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when you try to access a program that is not loaded.
What does a valid bit signify?
💡 Hint: Consider what it means when we check the status of a page in the memory.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a page fault indicate?
💡 Hint: Consider what happens when you try to access unloaded data.
True or False: The TLB only caches virtual addresses.
💡 Hint: Remember the purpose of TLB in address translation.
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Challenge Problems
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How does adding more cache affect system performance, considering page faults and TLB hits?
💡 Hint: Think about how often data is accessed and how caching helps memory retrieval.
If a program runs with a page fault rate of 5% and each fault costs 200ms, calculate the average time taken for 1000 instructions assuming each instruction takes 10ms.
💡 Hint: Break down the problem into instruction time and fault handling time.
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