A demand paging system takes 100 time units to service a page fault and 300…

GATE · 2007 · ITModified — slightly modified from the official paper; see the solution

A demand paging system takes 100 time units to service a page fault and 300 time units to replace a dirty page. Memory access time is 1 time unit. The probability of a page fault is p. In case of a page fault, the probability of page being dirty is also p. It is observed that the average access time is 3 time units. Then the value of p is

  1. A.

    0.0194

  2. B.

    0.233

  3. C.

    0.514

  4. D.

    0.981

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