Question

Locality of reference implies that the page reference being made by a process ____________

(a) will always be to the page used in the previous page reference

(b) is likely to be one of the pages used in the last few page references

(c) will always be one of the pages existing in memory

(d) will always lead to page faults

This question was addressed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

This key question is from Virtual Memory in portion The Linux System of Operating System

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) is likely to be one of the pages used in the last few page references

The best explanation: None.