Multiple choice

The minimum number of page frames that must be allocated to a running process in a virtual memory environment is determined by

  1. the instruction set architecture

  2. page size

  3. physical memory size

  4. number of processes in memory

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Explanation

Page frames are allocated in main memory, for virtual memory pages. This no. of page frames depends upon the instruction set architecture.