Practice Paging: Fixed-size Blocks (6.1.3) - Advanced Microprocessor Architectures
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Paging: Fixed-Size Blocks

Practice - Paging: Fixed-Size Blocks

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is a page in the context of paging?

💡 Hint: Think about how memory is organized.

Question 2 Easy

What happens during a page fault?

💡 Hint: Consider what the system does when it can't find a page in memory.

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Question 1

What is the purpose of a page table?

To manage physical memory size
To map logical pages to physical frames
To store execution history

💡 Hint: Think about how it relates to memory address translation.

Question 2

True or False: Paging completely eliminates memory fragmentation.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the different types of fragmentation.

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Challenge 1 Hard

If a computer system uses 4KB pages and has a virtual address space of 32 bits, how many pages can be created, and what size will the page table be if each PTE is 4 bytes?

💡 Hint: Use the total address space divided by the page size to find the number of pages.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss the effects of increasing the page size on internal fragmentation and page table overhead. What is the trade-off?

💡 Hint: Consider how larger pages impact memory space efficiency.

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