43. What are the possible threads a thread can have? Ready Standby Running Waiting Transition Terminated (58)
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37. List out some reasons for process termination. Normal completion Time limit exceeded Memory unavailable Bounds violation Protection error Arithmetic error (61)
31. What is SMP? To achieve maximum efficiency and reliability a mode of operation known as symmetric multiprocessing is used. In essence, with SMP any process or threads can be Continue Reading »
25. In loading programs into memory, what is the difference between load-time dynamic linking and run-time dynamic linking? For load-time dynamic linking: Load module to be loaded is read into Continue Reading »
19. What are local and global page replacements? Local replacement means that an incoming page is brought in only to the relevant process address space. Global replacement policy allows any Continue Reading »
13. What is meant by arm-stickiness? If one or a few processes have a high access rate to data on one track of a storage disk, then they may monopolize Continue Reading »
7. What are turnaround time and response time? Turnaround time is the interval between the submission of a job and its completion. Response time is the interval between submission of Continue Reading »
1. Explain the concept of Reentrancy? It is a useful, memory-saving technique for multiprogrammed timesharing systems. A Reentrant Procedure is one in which multiple users can share a single copy Continue Reading »