Question

What is the size of the linear address in the virtual memory manager?

(a) 2 Gbytes

(b) 12 Gbytes

(c) 4 Gbytes

(d) 16 Gbytes

This question was posed to me by my college director while I was bunking the class.

I need to ask this question from Resource Protection-II topic in portion Real Time Operating systems of Embedded Systems

Answer 1

Right option is (c) 4 Gbytes

The explanation is: The virtual memory manager can allocate a linear address space of size 4 Gbytes to each process which is unique and cannot be accessed by the other processes.