Locality of reference implies that the page reference being made by a process:
1997
Locality of reference implies that the page reference being made by a process:
- A.
will always be to the page used in the previous page reference
- B.
is likely to be to one of the pages used in the last few page references
- C.
will always be to one of the pages existing in memory
- D.
will always lead to a page fault
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Correct answer: B
The locality of reference says that a process tends to access a small working set of pages repeatedly over a short interval. Therefore, a page reference is likely to be to one of the pages used in the last few references, but this is not an absolute guarantee. Hence option 2 is correct.