Question

Modern operating systems decouple a process address space from the machine’s physical memory. List two advantages of this design.

Answer 1

Answer: Decoupling action of the process address space refers to the physical memory of the device getting decoupled to provide address translation in automatic way. The benefit of this method is as follows:-

• Faster starting up of the program
• The physical address space gets managed on its own
• Helps in execution of large program when the main memory of the machine is of smaller size in comparison with program