GATE CS 2014 Set 3 — Question 43

NAT+2 / -0MediumTLB & EATMemory ManagementOperating System

Operating System → Memory Management → TLB & EAT

Last updated 5 September 2026

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Consider a paging hardware with a TLB. Assume that the entire page table and all the pages are in the physical memory. It takes 10 milliseconds to search the TLB and 80 milliseconds to access the physical memory. If the TLB hit ratio is 0.6, the effective memory access time (in milliseconds) is_________.

T_{TLB}

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