Quiz submission record for quiz7-1-1 at Mon Aug  2 10:51:58 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
A VA is an address created by the CPU that maps to an actual PA, which is what is used to access main memory.  Through a process called address translation, a combination of hardware and software translates the VA to a PA.

Your Answer for Question 2:
By having pages in fixed-size chunks, we eliminate the need to find a contiguous block of memory to allocate to a program; instead, the operating system can calculate the number of pages needed and only needs to find a sufficient number of pages in main memory.  With bigger chunks, there's less chance of incurring a page fault, but with smaller chunks, there's a smaller miss penalty and faster access time.


Your unique submission ID is quiz7-1-1-cs61c-ar-1091469118-2774.