Practice - Thrashing
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Practice Questions
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Define thrashing in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about how a process uses memory.
What is a page fault?
💡 Hint: Relate it to the necessity of accessing pages.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is thrashing?
💡 Hint: Think of the impact on performance.
True or False: Thrashing occurs when a system has enough frames for all processes.
💡 Hint: Consider memory allocation.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simulation that models how thrashing occurs and its effects on CPU utilization under varying degrees of multiprogramming.
💡 Hint: Think about how each process's memory needs change based on the total number of processes.
Propose a strategy to dynamically adjust memory allocation to processes based on real-time page fault statistics.
💡 Hint: How would you prioritize which processes need more frames?
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