Consider a system with byte-addressable memory, 32-bit logical addresses, 4 kilobyte page size, and page table entries o...

Question

Consider a system with byte-addressable memory, 32-bit logical addresses, 4 kilobyte page size, and page table entries of 4 bytes each. The size of the page table of a process in the system in megabytes is _________.
A. 1
B. 4
C. 8
D. 16

Accepted Answer

Page table size = 4 MB. Answer: B. The page table has one entry for every virtual page in the process's address space. With a 32-bit address space and 4 KB pages, we can calculate the total number of pages and multiply by the size of each entry to get the total page table size.

Consider a system with byte-addressable memory, 32-bit logical addresses, 4 kilobyte page size, and page table entries of 4 bytes each. The size of the page table of a process in the system in megabytes is _________. A. 1 B. 4 C. 8 D. 16