The percentage of memory accesses found in a given level of memory
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1%
Miss rate
94%
Hit rate
5%
Average memory access time
the average time a processor must wait for memory per load or store instruction
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1%
Miss rate
2%
Hit rate
97%
Average memory access time
In the typical computer system, the processor first looks for the data in the cache. If the cache misses, the processor then looks in main memory. If the main memory misses, the processor accesses virtual memory on the hard disk
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94%
T
6%
F
An 11-cycle average memory access time means that the processor spends …. cycles waiting for data for every … cycle actually using that data
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7%
10 – 11
56%
10 – 1
19%
1 – 10
20%
11 – 1