The                  consists of all processes whose memory images are in the backing store or in memory and are ready to run.

Related MCQs

• 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?
• The backing store is generally a
• The backing store is generally a                          
• If all processes I/O bound, the ready queue will almost always be              and the Short term Scheduler will have a              to do.
• The disadvantage of moving all process to one end of memory and all holes to the other direction, producing one large hole of available memory is                          
• A circuitry that processes that responds to and processes the basic instructions that are required to drive a computer system is
• What is the ready state of a process?
• The                        swaps processes in and out of the memory.
• The swaps processes in and out of the memory.
• ‘m’ processes share ‘n’ resources of the same type. The maximum need of each process doesn’t exceed ‘n’ and the sum of all their maximum needs is always less than m+n. In this setup, deadlock