4 votes 4 votes Assume memory access time is 10 μs and reading a page from disk takes 10 ms. If page fault occur in 0.5% of the memory references then what is the average memory access time (in μsec)? Operating System operating-system test-series + – thor asked Sep 22, 2016 thor 805 views answer comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply Pavan Kumar Munnam commented Sep 22, 2016 reply Follow Share 70micro sec?? 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 4 votes 4 votes Average memory access time = 0.995 ( 10 ) + 0.005 (10 + 10000) = 60 Micro sec. Kapil answered Sep 22, 2016 • selected Sep 23, 2016 by vijaycs Kapil comment Share Follow See all 13 Comments See all 13 13 Comments reply Show 10 previous comments mcjoshi commented Sep 24, 2016 reply Follow Share @vijaycs @Kapilp Thanks for taking time to answer by doubt. 2 votes 2 votes thor commented Sep 24, 2016 reply Follow Share This is the answer provided 0 votes 0 votes Kapil commented Sep 24, 2016 reply Follow Share Wrong solution 9.5 + 5 = 10 :( 1 votes 1 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.