0 0 votes In one of the question from 2 level paging , they asked "What is the space overhead needed to translate virtual address to physical address of an instruction or data unit ? " Please explain what is space overhead in this context and how to calculate it. Operating System + – HeadShot 558 views answer comment Share Follow Print See all 3 Comments 3 3 Comments reply Anu007 commented Jun 24, 2018 reply Follow flag Overhead is nothing but space needed for storing page table. It is same as an index pages for a book with 500 topics, one can read the book without index also but index just speed up the searching process. So here index pages are overhead for a book. 1 1 replyShare HeadShot commented Jun 26, 2018 reply Follow flag Okay...Thank you ! 0 0 replyShare HeadShot commented Jun 26, 2018 reply Follow flag @Arjun Sir, Please explain this question. Didn't find solution anywhere. Thank you. 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.