Computer Science Fundamentals Operating Systems Subjective
Mar 07, 2013

Explain Belady's Anomaly?

Detailed Explanation

Also called FIFO anomaly. Usually, on increasing the number of frames allocated to a process virtual memory, the process execution is faster, because fewer page faults occur. Sometimes, the reverse happens, i.e., the execution time increases even when more frames are allocated to the process. This is Belady's Anomaly. This is true for certain page reference patterns.

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