A virtual memory system has an address space of 8 k words, a memory space of 4 k words, and page and block sizes of 1 k words. The number of page faults using LRU policy, for following page references is

1 0 2 4 6 2 1 5 7 0 0

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  2. 7
  3. 9
  4. 10

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Option 3 : 9
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Given:

Memory space = 4 K words

Page size = Frame size = 1 K words

∴ frames \(= \frac{{4\;K\;words}}{{1K\;words}} = 4\)

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Hence, the Total Number of page faults is 9.

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