Which is the best page replacement algorithm and
why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and
why?

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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and why? How much time is spent usually in each phases..

Answer / manu pai m

What is the criteria for the best page replacement algorithm?
1. It should be good in predicting which page wouldn't be
needed for the maximum amount of time, so that it can be
selected as the victim and swapped onto the disk.
2. It should use minimal resources (in terms of computation
and memory) to identify the victim.

There are a number of algorithms suggested including Random,
Least recently used, First chance algorithm etc. First
chance looks to be the best algorithm according to me.

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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and why? How much time is spent usually in each phases..

Answer / neha chauhan

Optimal page replacement algorithm is best page replacement
algorithm because in this algo we need to know about those
pages which would be used less frequently in futur and they
would be the victim pages to replace.

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Which is the best page replacement algorithm and why? How much time is spent usually in each phases..

Answer / samir11

there are 3 different page replacement algorithms .they are
FIFO,LRU,OPTIMAL page replacement algorithm....out of them,
page replacement algorithm is the best one.,because here
there are less no. of page faults.

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