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Which of the following statements are true?

Many may be true.

A frame is a fixed-size chunk of physical memory.

The bigger the page size, the worse the problem of internal fragmentation.

A page is a fixed-size chunk of a process's virtual address space.

A page is a fixed-size chunk of the computer's physical address space.

The smaller the page size, the worse the problem of internal fragmentation.

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Consider an MMU that implements the base & bound approach. However, it does not perform the bound check and immediately returns the base + the input virtual memory address.

Consider two single-threaded processes, P1 and P2.

Which of the following statements are true?

Many may be true.

P1 may be able to access memory that it is not supposed to.

100%

P1 may interfere with P2's execution, e.g., if P2 makes a function call, when the function returns, the CPU may not execute the instruction coming after the call.

100%

P1 may be able to read and/or modify P2's data.

100%

P1 may change the values that have been pushed into P2's stack, causing P2 to pop the wrong values from the stack.

100%

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