Question

The pages size shouldn’t be too small, as this would lead to __________

(a) Transfer errors

(b) Increase in operation time

(c) Increase in access time

(d) Decrease in performance

I have been asked this question during an interview.

This interesting question is from Address Translation in division Processor Families of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right answer is (c) Increase in access time

Explanation: The access time of the magnetic disk is much longer than the access time of the memory.