0 0 votes If there is a page fault for a page can we find the physical address of the page Operating System + – sathvikchiramana 771 views answer comment Share Follow Print See all 6 Comments 6 6 Comments reply Show 3 previous comments sathvikchiramana commented Nov 20, 2017 reply Follow flag After reading the contents in those links i have understood other reasons for pagefault....but i have one doubt...why the dirty page also causes pagefault 0 0 replyShare Rupendra Choudhary commented Nov 21, 2017 reply Follow flag remember this , whenever there is a failed attempt for a frame , it's page fault. you didn't get a free frame , OS is trying to remove some allocated frame but that frame is dirty mean during execution , it's contents are updated but not yet saved to disk. and you are about to remove it so what , you can't because in that way the updated information would lost as that's not saved to permanent storage. 0 0 replyShare sathvikchiramana commented Nov 21, 2017 reply Follow flag Thankuu 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.