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- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:22 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is deadlock? Explain.
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What is deadlock? Explain.
Deadlock is a specific situation or condition where two processes are waiting for each other to complete so that they can start. But this situation causes hang for both of them.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:22 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is thrashing?
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- Views: 428
What is thrashing?
Thrashing is a phenomenon in virtual memory scheme when the processor spends most of its time in swapping pages, rather than executing instructions.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:21 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is the advantage of a multiprocessor system?
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- Views: 413
What is the advantage of a multiprocessor system?
As many as processors are increased, you will get the considerable increment in throughput. It is cost effective also because they can share resources. So, the overall reliability increases.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:21 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is the concept of demand paging?
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- Views: 489
What is the concept of demand paging?
Demand paging specifies that if an area of memory is not currently being used, it is swapped to disk to make room for an application's need.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:20 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is the use of paging in operating system?
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- Views: 437
What is the use of paging in operating system?
Paging is used to solve the external fragmentation problem in operating system. This technique ensures that the data you need is available as quickly as possible.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:20 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is the difference between process and program?
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- Views: 464
What is the difference between process and program?
A program while running or executing is known as a process.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:19 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What are the different states of a process?
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- Views: 470
What are the different states of a process?
A list of different states of process:
New Process
Running Process
Waiting Process
Ready Process
Terminated Process
New Process
Running Process
Waiting Process
Ready Process
Terminated Process
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:19 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What do you mean by a process?
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- Views: 444
What do you mean by a process?
An executing program is known as process. There are two types of processes:
Operating System Processes
User Processes
Operating System Processes
User Processes
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:18 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is a real-time system?
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- Views: 443
What is a real-time system?
Real-time system is used in the case when rigid-time requirements have been placed on the operation of a processor. It contains a well defined and fixed time constraints.
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:18 pm
- Forum: Operating System
- Topic: What is a socket?
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- Views: 464
What is a socket?
A socket is used to make connection between two applications. Endpoints of the connection are called socket.