According to the FIFO Anomaly (also called Belady's Anomaly) certain page reference patterns cause ________ page faults when the number of page frames allocated to a process is ________.
A) more, increased
B) more, decreased
C) fewer, increased
D) fewer, decreased

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Belady's Anomaly refers to the counterintuitive situation in FIFO page replacement where increasing the number of page frames results in more page faults for certain reference patterns.

According to the FIFO Anomaly (Also Called Belady's Anomaly) Certain