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What is the purpose of compaction in memory management?
To reduce internal fragmentation by shuffling memory contents.
What is internal fragmentation in memory management?
The memory overhead due to allocated memory being slightly larger than requested memory.
In virtual memory management, what is the purpose of a page table?
To translate logical addresses to physical addresses.
What is the standard range for page sizes in modern systems?
4KB - 4MB
How are pages of virtual memory mapped to physical memory frames?
Using page tables to translate logical addresses.
What is the result of adding processes into pages with demand paging?
Higher page fault rates.
How does compaction help reduce external fragmentation in memory management?
By placing all free memory together in one large block.
What is the role of a page table in a paging system?
To convert virtual memory addresses to physical addresses.
Which scenario would likely lead to increased internal fragmentation?
Having a large discrepancy between allocated and requested memory sizes.
Why is it important to manage internal fragmentation in memory systems?
To prevent wastage of memory space.
Explore how the CPU-generated addresses are split into page numbers and offsets for address translation in memory management. Learn how page tables are used to find the base addresses of pages in physical memory, using a book analogy.
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