GATE CS 2018 – Question 20

Multiple choice 1 mark Question 20 2018

Question 20

MCQ 1 marks · −0.33 Operating Systems

Consider a process executing on an operating system that uses demand paging. The average time for a memory access in the system is \(M\) units if the corresponding memory page is available in memory, and \(D\) units if the memory access causes a page fault. It has been experimentally measured that the average time taken for a memory access in the process is \(X\) units.

Which one of the following is the correct expression for the page fault rate experienced by the process?

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Source: GATE 2018 Computer Science and Information Technology (question number approximate)