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Unit 7 : Memory Management Flashcards

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List out 2 partision methods

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  1. Fixed Partision
  2. Variable Partision
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List out the 2 methods for fixed partision

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  1. Fixed
    • Fixed size of the memory
    • Not the same value
  2. Paging
    • Fixed size of the memory
    • Same Value
  • Fixed ( 1 - 100kb , 2 - 200 kb , 3 - 300 kb )
  • Paging ( All parts are 50kb )
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How does variable partisioning assign the space?

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  1. Depends on the size of the program
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What components does RAM uses to create Virtual Memory?

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  1. Storage Device ( Hard Drive / SSD )
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What techniques does Virtual Memory uses? What is the total Memory when there is 8GB of RAM and 2GB of Virtual Memory?

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  1. Swap In / Out
  2. 10 GB
  • But computer can only use 8GB
  • When programs at not running at the RAM ( but app is still opening ) it will swap in to the virtual memory, if there is programs that is being used in virtual memory, it will swap out from virtual memory to RAM
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What things that programmers do not have to worry about when a pc has virtual memory?

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  1. Do not have to worry about space and writing overlay codes
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What techniques does virtual memory implemented?

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  1. Demand paging
  2. Demand segmentation
  • This allows for a process larger then the system physical memory to be executed
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In paging, physical memory is broken into fixed-sized blocks called what?

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  1. Frames
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In pagging, logical memory is also broken into blocks of the same size called what?

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  1. Pages
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What is the word paged means in memory?

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  1. Write in to the memory when a process needs to be executed
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What decides which pages to bring into memory?

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  1. Pager
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Does demand paging pages all the process?

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  1. No, only pages that are needed are brought in
  • An media player that has features like media and audio player, when user are playing audio, the media code won’t be in the memory
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What are the advantages of demand paging? ( 3 )

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  1. Avoid reading apges that will not be used
  2. Decreases paging time
  3. Decrease physical memory needed
  • It only brings in pages that are needed into memory
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List out 3 things for demand paging works ? ( 3 )

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  1. Logical Memory
  2. Page Table
  3. Physical Memory
  • Table examples on Slide 6
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What does addresses specify in segmentation?

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  1. Segment Name
  2. Offset
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What does a logical address space have?

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  1. A collection of segments
  • Each segment has a name and a length
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What is segmentation?

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  1. Is a memory management scheme that supports a user view of memory
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What is the most efficient virtual memory storage method?

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  1. Demand Segmentation
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What needs significant amount of hardware requirements?

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  1. Demand Segmentation
  • It allocetes memory in segments
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Does all paging systems use segmentation?

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  1. No
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What keeps track of segments?

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  1. Segment Descriptors
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Instead of allocatiing pages in memory, it was allocating in what ?

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  1. Segments
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How does demand paging works ? ( 3 )

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  1. Logical Address Space
  2. Physical Memory
  3. Segment Table
  • See example on Slide 11
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What does Limit and Base mean in Segment table?

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  1. Limit
    • The storage used
  2. Base
    • Where it starts from ( in physical memory )

*Limit 1000 Base 1400
Means it uses 1000 in physical memory and starts from 1400 in physical memory

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What is the condition for shared segmentation?
1. There are same instructions in the program * The difference is the data that we're transforming
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When does page fault occurs? ( 2 )
1. A process tries to use a page that is not in memory ( virtual memory is not counted as memory ) 2. An operating system interrupt occurs as a result of trying to access a missing page
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What are the steps in handling a page fault? ( 5 )
1. Locate the missing page 2. Find free memory frame 3. Copy into physical memory 4. Reset the page table 5. Restarts the instructions
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What will happen when there is no free frames to handle a new page? ( 2 )
1. Find a frame that is not currently begin used and free it
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How to free a frame? List out the steps ( 4 )
1. Find a frame not currently used 2. Copy its contents to disk ( Virtual Memory ) 3. Change the page table to indicate that the page is no longger in memory 4. Newly free frame can be used to store the page that resulted in the page fault
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What does computer uses to find a free frame?
1. Use a page replacement algorithm to find a free frame
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What is a string of memory reference called?
1. Reference string
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What do we need to consider for a given page?
1. Only the page number, not the entire address
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Does every operating system has its own unique page replacement algorithm ?
1. Yes
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What does we want when selecting a particular algorithm?
1. Lowest page fault rate
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List out the types of page repplacement algorithms
1. First in First Out 2. Optimal 3. Least Recently Used
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What is the simplest page replacement algorithm?
1. First In First Out
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What is page replacement algorithm is easily implemented
1. First in First Out
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What page replacement algorithm uses the age of the page as the criteria to perform page replacement
1. First In First Out
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What is the age of the page mean in First In First Out?
1. The amount of time the page has spent in memory
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Which page is the victim page?
1. Oldest Page For example, check out in Slide 26
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What is the advantage of the First In First Out technique? ( 3 )
1. The oldest page could be very much in demand 2. The oldest page is replaced there will be an immediate page fault 3. Suffers from BELADY'S ANOMALY
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What is one of the pioneers of modern operating systems who did extensive studies on Page Replacement Schemes?
1. Belady
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What will happen when the number of memory frames are increased on the basis of logical thinking?
1. The number of page faults decreases * But Belady found that certain memory reference strings, as the number of memory frames are increased the number of page faults increases
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What page replacement algorithm that matches the below statement? 1. Lowest page fault with a fixed number of frames 2. Does not suffer from Belady's Anomaly
1. Optimal
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What does optimal page replacement algorithm do?
1. Replaces the page that will not be used for the longest period of time
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Why optimal is difficult to implement?
1. Because it requires future knowledge of the reference string
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What page replacement algorithms uses the technique of looking backwards?
1. Least Recently Used
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What does least recently used ( page replacement algorithm ) does? ( 2 )
1. Associates each page with time of when the page was last used 2. When a page needs to be replaced, the page that has not been used for the longest period will be chose
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What page replacement algorithm causes CPU utilisation to drop?
1. Thrashing
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What page replacement algorithms have the condition below : 1. A condition where there is high page replacement activity 2. A process spends more time replacing pages than processing. 3. Causes CPU utilisation to drop 4. System throughput reduced and page fault rate increases
1. Thrashing
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Virtual Memory techniques ( Demand Paging / Segmentation ) takes what responsibility from programmer to code?
1. Techniques for overlays 2. Fixed or Variable Partisions
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When does Page Faults occur?
1. When a page that is needed is found in memoru
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What does Page Replacements are based on what?
1. Trying to find free frames
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When does Page Replacement Algorithm are used?
1. When there exists no free frames
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Summarize how FIFO does as Page Replacement Algorithm
1. First-In-First-Out replaces the oldest page
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Summarize how Optimal does as Page Replacement Algorithm
1. Replaces the pages that is least likely to be used
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Summarize how Least Recently Used does as Page Replacement Algorithm
1. Replaces the page that has not been used recently
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When does Thrashing occurs?
1. When page replacement activities occurs more then process execution
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Describe the term below: 1. First Fit 2. Best Fit 3. Worst Fit
1. First Fit - Allocates the first space available to fit the process 2. Best Fit - Allocated the smallest space that will fit the process 3. Worst Fit - Allocate the largest space available
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