Practice Minimum Frame Allocation (21.3.1) - Page Frame Allocation and Thrashing
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Minimum Frame Allocation

Practice - Minimum Frame Allocation

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a page fault?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a process can't find a required piece of data.

Question 2 Easy

Define thrashing in the context of memory management.

💡 Hint: Consider what happens when there aren't enough frames for processes.

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Question 1

What happens when a process does not have enough frames allocated to it?

It operates efficiently.
It experiences thrashing.
It uses all available memory.

💡 Hint: Think about the impact of not enough resources.

Question 2

True or False: Fixed allocation is independent of process size.

True
False

💡 Hint: Reflect on the characteristics of fixed frame distribution.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a system with 150 frames and 4 processes requiring (in order) 40, 50, 30, and 20 frames each, how would you allocate the frames using proportional allocation?

💡 Hint: Sum the requirements first to guide your allocations.

Challenge 2 Hard

Create a scenario that demonstrates thrashing and explain how to mitigate it based on the concepts learned.

💡 Hint: Think about balancing between active process needs and available memory.

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