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GATE CSE 2008 | Question: 67
A processor uses $36$ bit physical address and $32$ bit virtual addresses, with a page frame size of $4$ Kbytes. Each page table entry is of size $4$ bytes. A three level page table is used for virtual to physical address translation, where the virtual address is used as ... tables are respectively $\text{20,20,20}$ $\text{24,24,24}$ $\text{24,24,20}$ $\text{25,25,24}$

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GATE CSE 1995 | Question: 20
The head of a moving head disk with $100$ tracks numbered $0$ to $99$ is currently serving a request at track $55$. If the queue of requests kept in FIFO order is $10, 70, 75, 23, 65$ which of the two disk scheduling algorithms ... Come First Served) and SSTF (Shortest Seek Time First) will require less head movement? Find the head movement for each of the algorithms.

The head of a moving head disk with $100$ tracks numbered $0$ to $99$ is currently serving a request at track $55$. If the queue of requests kept in FIFO order is $$10, 7...

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GATE CSE 2001 | Question: 2.21
Consider a machine with $64$ MB physical memory and a $32$-bit virtual address space. If the page size s $4$ KB, what is the approximate size of the page table? $\text{16 MB}$ $\text{8 MB}$ $\text{2 MB}$ $\text{24 MB}$

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GATE CSE 2003 | Question: 78
A processor uses $2-level$ page tables for virtual to physical address translation. Page tables for both levels are stored in the main memory. Virtual and physical addresses are both $32$ bits wide. The memory is byte addressable. For virtual to physical address translation, the ... virtual address is approximately (to the nearest $0.5$ ns) $1.5$ ns $2$ ns $3$ ns $4$ ns

A processor uses $2-level$ page tables for virtual to physical address translation. Page tables for both levels are stored in the main memory. Virtual and physical addres...

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Operating systems efficiency
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CPU Efficiency is very less in case of:(a) Batch OS (b) Multi-Programming OS(c) Multi-tasking OS(d) Multi-Processing OS

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GATE CSE 2016 Set 1 | Question: 50
Consider the following proposed solution for the critical section problem. There are $n$ processes : $P_0....P_{n-1}$. In the code, function $\text{pmax}$ ... in the critical section at any time The bounded wait condition is satisfied The progress condition is satisfied It cannot cause a deadlock

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GATE CSE 2013 | Question: 52
A computer uses $46\text{-bit}$ virtual address, $32\text{-bit}$ physical address, and a three-level paged page table organization. The page table base register stores the base address of the first-level table $\text{(T1)}$ ... is $64$ bytes. What is the size of a page in $\textsf{KB}$ in this computer? $2$ $4$ $8$ $16$

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GATE CSE 2020 | Question: 53
Consider a paging system that uses $1$-level page table residing in main memory and a $\textsf{TLB}$ for address translation. Each main memory access takes $100$ ns and $\textsf{TLB}$ lookup takes $20$ ns. Each page transfer to/from the disk ... $1$ decimal places) is ___________

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GATE CSE 2005 | Question: 72
Consider the following code fragment: if (fork() == 0) { a = a + 5; printf("%d, %p n", a, &a); } else { a = a - 5; printf ("%d, %p n", a,& a); } Let $u,v$ be the values printed by the parent process and $x,y$ be the values printed by the child ... $u + 10 = x \text{ and } v = y$ $u + 10 = x \text{ and } v != y$

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GATE CSE 2005 | Question: 22, ISRO2015-36
Increasing the RAM of a computer typically improves performance because: Virtual Memory increases Larger RAMs are faster Fewer page faults occur Fewer segmentation faults occur

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GATE CSE 2010 | Question: 46
A system has $n$ resources $R_0, \dots,R_{n-1}$, and $k$ processes $P_0, \dots, P_{k-1}$. The implementation of the resource request logic of each process $P_i$ is as follows: $\text{if} (i\%2==0) \{$ $\quad\text{if} (i<n) \text{ request } R_i;$ ... which of the following situations is a deadlock possible? $n=40,\: k=26$ $n=21,\:k=12$ $n=20,\:k=10$ $n=41,\:k=19$

A system has $n$ resources $R_0, \dots,R_{n-1}$, and $k$ processes $P_0, \dots, P_{k-1}$. The implementation of the resource request logic of each process $P_i$ is as fol...

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GATE CSE 2015 Set 2 | Question: 23
A system has $6$ identical resources and $N$ processes competing for them. Each process can request at most $2$ requests. Which one of the following values of $N$ could lead to a deadlock? $1$ $2$ $3$ $4$

A system has $6$ identical resources and $N$ processes competing for them. Each process can request at most $2$ requests. Which one of the following values of $N$ could l...

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GATE CSE 2012 | Question: 32
Fetch_And_Add(X,i) is an atomic Read-Modify-Write instruction that reads the value of memory location $X$, increments it by the value $i$, and returns the old value of $X$. It is used in the pseudocode shown below to implement ... take on a non-zero value when the lock is actually available works correctly but may starve some processes works correctly without starvation

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GATE CSE 2013 | Question: 53
A computer uses $46\text{-bit}$ virtual address, $32\text{-bit}$ physical address, and a three-level paged page table organization. The page table base register stores the base address of the first-level table $\text{(T1)},$ which occupies exactly one ... to guarantee that no two synonyms map to different sets in the processor cache of this computer? $2$ $4$ $8$ $16$

A computer uses $46\text{-bit}$ virtual address, $32\text{-bit}$ physical address, and a three–level paged page table organization. The page table base register stores ...

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GATE CSE 2009 | Question: 30
Consider a system with $4$ types of resources $R1$ ($3$ units), $R2$ ($2$ units), $R3$ ($3$ units), $R4$ ($2$ units). A non-preemptive resource allocation policy is used. At any given instance, a request is not entertained if it cannot be ... deadlock Only $P1$ and $P2$ will be in deadlock Only $P1$ and $P3$ will be in deadlock All three processes will be in deadlock

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GATE CSE 2014 Set 2 | Question: 33
A computer has twenty physical page frames which contain pages numbered $101$ through $120$. Now a program accesses the pages numbered $\text{1, 2, ..., 100}$ in that order, and repeats the access sequence THRICE. Which one of ... as the optimal page replacement policy for this program? Least-recently-used First-in-first-out Last-in-first-out Most-recently-used

A computer has twenty physical page frames which contain pages numbered $101$ through $120$. Now a program accesses the pages numbered $\text{1, 2, ..., 100}$ in that ord...

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Consider a uniprocessor system executing three tasks $T_{1}, T_{2}$ and $T_{3}$ each of which is composed of an infinite sequence of jobs (or instances) which arrive periodically at intervals of $3, 7$ and $20$ ... $T_{3}$ completes its execution at the end of_____________________milliseconds.

Consider a uniprocessor system executing three tasks $T_{1}, T_{2}$ and $T_{3}$ each of which is composed of an infinite sequence of jobs (or instances) which arrive peri...

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A multithreaded program $P$ executes with $x$ number of threads and uses $y$ number of locks for ensuring mutual exclusion while operating on shared memory locations. All locks in the program are non-reentrant, i.e., if a thread holds a lock $l$, then it cannot re-acquire lock $l$ without releasing ... $x = 1, y = 2$ $x = 2, y = 1$ $x = 2, y = 2$ $x = 1, y = 1$

A multithreaded program $P$ executes with $x$ number of threads and uses $y$ number of locks for ensuring mutual exclusion while operating on shared memory locations. All...

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GATE CSE 2015 Set 3 | Question: 1
The maximum number of processes that can be in $\textit{Ready}$ state for a computer system with $n$ CPUs is : $n$ $n^2$ $2^n$ Independent of $n$

The maximum number of processes that can be in $\textit{Ready}$ state for a computer system with $n$ CPUs is :$n$$n^2$$2^n$Independent of $n$

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GATE CSE 2021 Set 2 | Question: 48
Consider a three-level page table to translate a $39-$bit virtual address to a physical address as shown below: The page size is $\text{4 KB} \;(1\text{KB}=2^{10}$ bytes$)$ and page table entry size at every level is $8$ bytes. A ... $P$ across all levels is _________ $\text{KB}$.

Consider a three-level page table to translate a $39-$bit virtual address to a physical address as shown below:The page size is $\text{4 KB} \;(1\text{KB}=2^{10}$ bytes$)...

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