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GATE CSE & IT · Operating Systems - Memory Management · 1990-2026

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2026 PYQ

A system has a Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) that has a reach of 1 MB . TLB reach is defined as the total amount of physical memory that can be accessed through the TLB entrie...

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2025 Q14

Consider a demand paging memory management system with 32-bit logical address, 20-bit physical address, and page size of 2048 bytes. Assuming that the memory is byte addressable, w...

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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 Q58

A computer system supports a logical address space of 2^32 bytes. It uses two-level hierarchical paging with a page size of 4096 bytes. A logical address is divided into a b-bit in...

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2024 Q24

Which of the following tasks is/are the responsibility/responsibilities of the memory management unit (MMU) in a system with paging-based memory management?

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2024 Q62

Consider a memory management system that uses a page size of 2 KB. Assume that both the physical and virtual addresses start from 0. Assume that the pages 0, 1, 2, and 3 are stored...

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2024 Q64

Consider a 32-bit system with 4 KB page size and page table entries of size 4 bytes each. Assume 1 KB = 2^10 bytes. The OS uses a 2-level page table for memory management, with the...

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2024 PYQ

Consider a memory management system that uses a page size of 2 KB. Assume that both the physical and virtual addresses start from 0. Assume that the pages 0, 1, 2, and 3 are stored...

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2024 PYQ

Which of the following tasks is/are the responsibility/responsibilities of the memory management unit (MMU) in a system with paging-based memory management?

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2021 PYQ

In the context operating systems, which of the following statements is/are correct with respect to paging?

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2019 PYQ

Assume that in a certain computer, the virtual addresses are 64 bits long and the physical addresses are 48 bits long. The memory is word addressable. The page size is 8 kB and the...

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2016 PYQ

Consider a computer system with $$40$$-bit virtual addressing and page size of sixteen kilobytes. If the computer system has a one-level page table per process and each page table...

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2015 PYQ

A computer system implements $$8$$ kilobyte pages and a $$32$$-bit physical address space. Each page table entry contains a valid bit, a dirty bit, three permission bits, and the t...

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2014 PYQ

Consider a paging hardware with a TLB. Assume that the entire page table and all the pages are in the physical memory. It takes 10 milliseconds to search the TLB and 80 millisecond...

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2009 PYQ

A multilevel page table is preferred in comparison to a single level page table for translating virtual address to physical address because.

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2003 PYQ

In a system with $$32$$ bit virtual addresses and $$1$$ $$KB$$ page size, use of one-level page tables for virtual to physical address translation is not practical because of

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1997 PYQ

Locality of reference implies that the page reference being made by a process

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1990 PYQ

Under paged memory management scheme simple lock and key memory protection arrangement may still be required if the $$........$$ processors do not have address mapping hardware.

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