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Consider a system with 32 bit virtual addresses and 1 kbyte page size. Why is it not possible to use one - level page tables for virtual to physical address translation?

a.

The amount of external fragmentation

b.

The amount of internal fragmentation

c.

The large computation overhead in the translation process

d.

The large memory overhead in maintaining page tables

Answer: (d).The large memory overhead in maintaining page tables

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Q. Consider a system with 32 bit virtual addresses and 1 kbyte page size. Why is it not possible to use one - level page tables for virtual to physical address translation?

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