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How does the operating system moves files from secondary storage to main memory?
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it gets a bunch of people to carry it there
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What are the responsibilities of operating system secondary storage?
-> memory management -> catching -> pooling
What is dirty page in operating system?
A data can be retrieved from the secondary storage for use in main memory, but if we edit the data and not save the data in to the secondary storage, it is termed as a dirty page.
State 3 major activities of an operating system in regard to secondary storage management?
Managing the free space available on the secondary-storage device.Allocation of storage space when new files have to be written.Scheduling the requests for memory access.
When an operating system uses secondary storage to store programs in RAM during execution of those programs is called?
virtual memory
Is an operating system responsible for storing files and folders on a secondary storage device using an organizational method called the file system?
False, the operating system is not responsible for storing files and folders on a secondary storage device.
What is secondary storage memory?
Second storage memory has 2 definitions, it's either the space in your hard drive that's not occupied by your files and operating system, or it could be portable memory like usb sticks, (flash drives) and CD's.
When a computer start up what does it locate?
An operating system in storage and loads it into memory.
An operating system is responsible for storing files and folders on a secondary storage device using an organizational method called the file system?
Yes, an operating system is responsible for storing files and folders on a secondary storage device using an organizational method called the file system.
An operating system is responsible for storing files and folders on a secondary storage device using an organizational method called file system?
Yes, an operating system is responsible for storing files and folders on a secondary storage device using an organizational method called a file system.
What manages the hardware components including the CPU memory storage?
Operating System
What program in an OS coordinates the memories by tracking which one is available which is to be allocated or deallocated and how to swap between the main memory and secondary memories?
The memory manager is the program responsible for managing memory allocation and deallocation in an operating system. It keeps track of which memory is available and allocates it to processes based on their needs. It also handles swapping data between main memory and secondary storage when the system runs low on physical memory.
Where does operating system reside?
The operating system resides in secondary memory i.e., hard disk.when we boot our computer it is loaded into Primary memory i.e.,RAM and then loaded,this process is called booting
