title: Minimum Page Frames
body: <p>What determines the minimum number of page frames that must be allocated to a running process in a virtual memory environment.</p>
  
  <p>I found the the answer to the above question is <code>instruction set architecture</code> but couldn't understand reason behind it.</p>
  
  <p>please explain.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT :</strong>
  The question is on the following link <a href="http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/archives/4036" rel="noreferrer">http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/archives/4036</a> (see question 3), i'm not able to understand the logic behind the answer.</p>