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SHOW WORK AND EXPLAIN! The term cache pollution refers to the situation where mo

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SHOW WORK AND EXPLAIN!
The term cache pollution refers to the situation where more than one process is running concurrently and:
A.)  they send bad data to each other B.)  they repeatedly overwrite each others' virtual memory pages in memory C.)  one process blocks another person from running D.)  the operation system's data structures are corrupted



SHOW WORK AND EXPLAIN!
The term cache pollution refers to the situation where more than one process is running concurrently and:
A.)  they send bad data to each other B.)  they repeatedly overwrite each others' virtual memory pages in memory C.)  one process blocks another person from running D.)  the operation system's data structures are corrupted

Explanation / Answer

Cache pollution describes situations where an executing computer program loads data into CPU cache unnecessarily, thus causing other needed data to be evicted from the cache into lower levels of the memory hierarchy, potentially all the way down to main memory, degrading performance.