A page fault
2009
A page fault
- A.
is an error specific page
- B.
is an access to the page not currently in memory
- C.
occur when a page program occur in a page memory
- D.
page used in the previous page reference
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Correct answer: B
A page fault occurs when a program attempts to access a memory page that is not currently loaded into physical RAM. The operating system handles this by suspending the process, loading the required page from disk into memory, and then resuming execution.
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