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Question:  Starvation

Answer: What is Starvation? How starvation is avoided in UNIX and WINDOWS Operating System?


July 07, 2009 18:06:51 #2
 raj_smart   Member Since: July 2009    Total Comments: 2 

Starvation
 
The solution to starvation is to include the process of "Aging". The idea is to change the priority of a process as a time goes by. This can be done by reducing the priority of higher priority processes or by raising the priority of starved processes.
     

 

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