A system has 3 processes sharing 4 resources. If each process needs a maximum of 2 units then, deadlock                          

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• There are 10 different processes running on a workstation. Idle processes are waiting for an input event in the input queue. Busy processes are scheduled with the Round- Robin time sharing method. Which out of the following quantum times is the best value for small response times, if the processes have a short runtime, e.g. less than 10ms?
• Each request requires that the system consider the                            to decide whether the current request can be satisfied or must wait to avoid a future possible deadlock.
• Those processes should be aborted on occurrence of a deadlock, the termination of which?
• A set of processes is deadlock if
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• A circuitry that processes that responds to and processes the basic instructions that are required to drive a computer system is
• For an effective operating system, when to check for deadlock?
• A deadlock eventually cripples system throughput and will cause the CPU utilization to