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FIFO page replacement algorithm

Prob. How many page faults will occur with a reference string 0,1,7,2,3,2,7,1,0,3?

There are four frames which are initially empty.

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1. FIFO Page replacement algorithm

Sol.

FIFO Page replacement algorithm:

FIFO stands for First in first out.

In FIFO Page replacement algorithm problem is, it may replace heavily used pages.

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Above table is an example of page frame, which is empty initially. And first page is 0.

So 0 will get added here, but there will be a page fault.

What is a page fault?

The page which is requested by the program is not present in the RAM, that means there is a page fault.

0 was not present in the page frame so there was a page fault.

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0
F

The next page is 1 and there is space for two more pages.So 0 will remain there and 1 will get added there. And again there will be a page fault.

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00
1
FF

The next page is 7, which is not in the page frame, but there is place for one more page, so 0 and 1 will remain there and 7 will get added. And there will be a page fault.

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000
11
7
FFF

The next page is 2, which is not in the page frame, but there is place for one more page, so 0, 1 and 7 will remain there and 2 will get added. And there will be a page fault.

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0000
111
77
2
FFFF

I have given red color when there is a page fault, and black color for rest of the pages, and green color for page hits.

Now the page frame is full, and the next page is 3 which is not there in the page frame. So we need to remove one page from the page frame, so we can add 3 there.

Now see in the table below,

Page 0 came first than 1 than 7 than 2, so page 0 will get removed, and 3 will get added there. And there will be a page fault because 3 was not present in the page frame. And 1, 7, and 2 will remain there.

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00003
1111
777
22
FFFFF

The next page is 2, which is already present in the page frame. This is known as page hit.

What is page hit ?

The page which is requested by the program is already present in the RAM/page frame is known as page hit.

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000033
11111
7777
222
FFFFFH

The next page is 7, which is already present in the page frame. This is known as page hit.

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0000333
111111
77777
2222
FFFFFHH

The next page is 1, which is already present in the page frame. This is known as page hit.

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00003333
1111111
777777
22222
FFFFFHHH

The page frame is full, and the next page is 0 which is not there in the page frame. So we need to remove one page from the page frame, so we can add 0 there.

Now see in the table below,

Page 1 came first than 7 than 2 than 3, so page 1 will get removed, and 0 will get added there. And there will be a page fault because 0 was not present in the page frame. And 3, 7, and 2 will remain there.

The next page is 3, which is already present in the page frame. This is known as page hit.

Now see in the table below,

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0000333333
111111100
77777777
2222222
FFFFFHHHFH

Total pages present in the pages = 10.

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Total page faults = 06.

FFFFFF

Total page hits= 04

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