The working set of a process is the allocated pages/segments at any one time window (delta), consisting
of all pages accessed during that time. Includes current top of stack, areas of the heap, current code
segment and shared libraries.
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What are temporal locality and spatial locality?
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What are temporal locality and spatial locality?
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What is an inverted page table? How does it compare to a two-level page table?
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What is an inverted page table? How does it compare to a two-level page table?
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Describe a two-level page table? How does it compare to a simple page table array?
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Describe a two-level page table? How does it compare to a simple page table array?
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Some TLBs support address space identifiers (ASIDS), why?
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Some TLBs support address space identifiers (ASIDS), why?
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Describe segmentation-based virtual memory. You should consider the components of a
memory address, the segment table and its contents, and how the final physical address is
formed...
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Describe segmentation-based virtual memory. You should consider the components of a
memory address, the segment table and its contents, and how the final physical address is
formed in your answer
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Give some advantages of a system with page-based virtual memory compared to a simply system with base-limit registers that implements swapping
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Give some advantages of a system with page-based virtual memory compared to a simply system with base-limit registers that implements swapping
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Describe page-based virtual memory. You should consider pages, frames, page
tables, and Memory Management Units in your answer
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Describe page-based virtual memory. You should consider pages, frames, page
tables, and Memory Management Units in your answer
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Base-limit MMUs can support swapping. What is swapping? Can swapping permit an application requiring 16M memory to run on a machine with 8M of RAM?
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Base-limit MMUs can support swapping. What is swapping? Can swapping permit an application requiring 16M memory to run on a machine with 8M of RAM?
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List and describe the four memory allocation algorithms covered in lectures. Which two of the four are more commonly used in practice?
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List and describe the four memory allocation algorithms covered in lectures. Which two of the four are more commonly used in practice?
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Describe the difference between external and internal fragmentation. Indicate which of
the two are most likely to be an issues on a) a simple memory memory...
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Describe the difference between external and internal fragmentation. Indicate which of
the two are most likely to be an issues on a) a simple memory memory management machine
using base limit registers and static partitioning, and b) a similar machine using dynamic
partitioning.
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Why might filesystems managing external storage devices do write-through caching (avoid buffering writes) even though there is a detrimental affect on performance
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Why might filesystems managing external storage devices do write-through caching (avoid buffering writes) even though there is a detrimental affect on performance
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What does flushd do on a UNIX system?
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What does flushd do on a UNIX system?
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What is the maximum file size supported by a file system with 16 direct blocks, single,
double, and triple indirection? The block size is 512 bytes....
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What is the maximum file size supported by a file system with 16 direct blocks, single,
double, and triple indirection? The block size is 512 bytes. Disk block numbers can be stored
in 4 bytes.
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Why might the direct blocks be stored in the inode itself?
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Why might the direct blocks be stored in the inode itself?
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How can the block count in an in order differ from the (file size / block size) rounded up to
the nearest integer. Can the block...
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How can the block count in an in order differ from the (file size / block size) rounded up to
the nearest integer. Can the block count be greater, smaller, or both
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Compare bitmap-based allocation of blocks on disk with a free block list
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Compare bitmap-based allocation of blocks on disk with a free block list
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What file allocation strategy is most appropriate for random access files?
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What file allocation strategy is most appropriate for random access files?
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What file access pattern is particularly suited to chained file allocation on disk?
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What file access pattern is particularly suited to chained file allocation on disk?
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Give an example where contiguous allocation of file blocks on disks can be used in practice
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Give an example where contiguous allocation of file blocks on disks can be used in practice
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Give a scenario where choosing a large filesystem block size might be a benefit; give an
example where it might be a hindrance
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Give a scenario where choosing a large filesystem block size might be a benefit; give an
example where it might be a hindrance
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