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05.19.2008 at 08:38PM PDT, ID: 23415997
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How to calculate a physical address given a virtual address

Asked by namsu55 in Operating Systems Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous, Operating Systems Development

Tags: Virtual Memory Calculation

I am having problems understanding how to calculate the Physical address given the Virtual address.

Here is a question from the Operating Systems, 3/e book from Deitel:

At an instant in time a computer has a page table of which a part (entries 1086, 1087,
1088 decimal, with numbering starting at 0) is shown in Table 2. Given that the page
size is 4096 bytes, compute the physical address for virtual address 43d5bc.

Table 2

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...
5c
4e
fc
...

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