Question 57Asked in DSSSB TGT Computer Science (Technical), 1 Aug 2021, Shift 3

Which page replacement algorithm has Belady's anomaly?

  1. AOptimal page replacement
  2. BFIFO page replacement
  3. CLeast recent used page replacement
  4. DNot recently used page replacement
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Correct answer: (B) FIFO page replacement

Explanation

In FIFO, increasing the number of frames can increase page faults for some reference strings (Belady's anomaly). Optimal and LRU are stack algorithms and do not suffer from it.

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