In a system containing several concurrent processes, a running process with a small working set tends to experience a ________ number of page faults as the page size ________.
A) greater, increases
B) greater, decreases
C) constant, increases
D) constant, decreases

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A running process with a small working set tends to experience a greater number of page faults as the page size increases because a larger page size means that more memory is allocated to each page, which in turn means that the process is more likely to experience page faults when it accesses memory.

In a System Containing Several Concurrent Processes, a Running Process