Practice - Page Replacement
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Practice Questions
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Define a page fault.
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during a memory access.
What is meant by stall cycles?
💡 Hint: Consider the CPU's ability to execute instructions.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What happens during a page fault?
💡 Hint: Think about what the system needs to do when it can't find a page.
True or False: Stall cycles only occur during page faults.
💡 Hint: Consider other scenarios involving memory access.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a scenario with a specific number of pages in memory and a reference string, analyze which pages will be replaced using FIFO and calculate the associated page fault rate.
💡 Hint: List each page access and note which pages are in memory.
Design a hybrid page replacement strategy combining FIFO and LRU (Least Recently Used) methods and justify your design's effectiveness.
💡 Hint: Consider how FIFO manages the oldest page while LRU focuses on recent accesses.
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