Practice - Paging: Fixed-Size Blocks
Practice Questions
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What is a page in the context of paging?
💡 Hint: Think about how memory is organized.
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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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the purpose of a page table?
💡 Hint: Think about how it relates to memory address translation.
True or False: Paging completely eliminates memory fragmentation.
💡 Hint: Consider the different types of fragmentation.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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