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Page Replacement

GATE CSE & IT · Operating Systems - Paging · 1991-2025

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2025 Q47

Consider a demand paging system with three frames, and the following page reference string: 123454164513 2. The contents of the frames are as follows initially and after each refer...

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2025 Q54

In optimal page replacement algorithm, information about all future page references is available to the operating system (OS). A modification of the optimal page replacement algori...

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2023 PYQ

Consider the following two-dimensional array D in the C programming language, which is stored in row-major order: int D[128] [128]; Demand paging is used for allocating memory and...

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2022 PYQ

Consider a demand paging system with four page frames (initially empty) and LRU page replacement policy. For the following page reference string 7, 2, 7, 3, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 1,...

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2016 PYQ

In which one of the following page replacement algorithms it is possible for the page fault rate to increase even when the number of allocated frames increases?

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2015 PYQ

Consider a main memory with five page frames and the following sequence of page references: 3, 8, 2, 3, 9, 1, 6, 3, 8, 9, 3, 6, 2, 1, 3. Which one of the following is true with res...

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2014 PYQ

A system uses $$3$$ page frames for storing process pages in main memory. It uses the Least Recently Used $$(LRU)$$ page replacement policy. Assume that all the page frames are ini...

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2012 PYQ

Consider the virtual page reference string $$$1,2,3,2,4,1,3,2,4,1$$$ On a demand paged virtual memory system running on a computer system that has main memory size of $$3$$ page fr...

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2010 PYQ

A system uses FIFO policy for page replacement. It has $$4$$ pages frames with no pages loaded to begin with. The system first accesses $$100$$ distinct pages in some order and the...

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2009 PYQ

Consider the virtual page reference string $$$1,2,3,2,4,1,3,2,4,1$$$ On a demand paged virtual memory system running on a computer system that has main memory size of $$3$$ page fr...

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2009 PYQ

In which one of the following page replacement policies, Belady’s anomaly may occur?

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2007 PYQ

A process has been allocated $$3$$ page frames. Assume that none of the pages of the process are available in the memory initially. The process makes the following sequence of page...

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2002 PYQ

The optimal page replacement algorithm will select the page that.

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2001 PYQ

Consider a virtual memory system with $$FIFO$$ page replacement policy. For an arbitrary page access pattern, increasing the number of page frames in main memory will

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1994 PYQ

A memory page containing a heavily used variable that was initialized very early and is in constant use is removed when

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1993 PYQ

The following page addresses, in the given sequence, were generated by a program: 1 2 3 4 1 3 5 2 1 5 4 3 2 3 This program is run on a demand paged virtual memory system, with main...

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1992 PYQ

Which page replacement policy sometimes leads to more page faults when size of memory is increased?

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1991 PYQ

State whether the following statement TRUE or FALSE. The $$LRU$$ page-replacement policy may cause thrashing for some type of programs.

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