Entries from June 2009
Window of the working set of a process
What is the window of the working set of a process? The window of the working set of a process is the total number in which the process had referred the set of pages in the working set of the process. Read More...
Working set of a process
What is the working set of a process? The set of pages that are referred by the process in the last ‘n’, references, where ‘n’ is called the window of the working set of the process. Read More...
Conditions on which deadlock can occur while swapping the processes
What are conditions on which deadlock can occur while swapping the processes? All processes in the main memory are asleep. All ‘ready-to-run’ processes are swapped out. There is no space in the swap device for the new incoming process that are swapped out of the main memory. There is no space in the main memory Read More...
Nice value
What do you mean by nice value? Nice value is the value that controls {increments or decrements} the priority of the process. This value that is returned by the nice () system call. The equation for using nice value is: Priority = (“recent CPU usageâ€/constant) + (base- priority) + (nice value) Only the administrator can Read More...