If there are too many page faults what is the problem?



If there are too many page faults what is the problem?..

Answer / sriram

If there are too many page faults in the system,the major
problem called thrashing occurs...thrashing means the
operating system keeps on indulging in replacing the
faulted pages and bringing the relevant pages into the
memory and does no useful work during this time....hence
the system throughput decreases.......

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