Quiz submission record for quiz7-1-1 at Sun Aug  1 22:59:46 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
The processor generates virtual addresses while the memory is accessed using physical address.

You get a PA from a VA via translation by a combination of hardware and software in a process known as memory mapping or address translation.

Your Answer for Question 2:
THe benefits of using fixed-size chunks to allocate pages in the VM system are that you eliminate the need to find a contiguous block of memory to allocate a program and it makes the boundary between page number and offset invisible to programmers and compilers.

Bigger chunks are good for taking advantage of spatial locality and reduce the (very costly) miss rate.

Smaller chunks helps improve page tables.


Your unique submission ID is quiz7-1-1-cs61c-ax-1091426386-2570.