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


  
Total Answers and Comments: 2 Last Update: July 02, 2009     Asked by: sunilharcourt 
  
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February 22, 2009 05:04:24   #1  
karan_gtnit Member Since: February 2009   Contribution: 1    

RE: Starvation
Starvation takes place when a low-priority process does not get CPU time bcoz of higher priority processes keep coming.
this can be removed by AGING
In this A Process waiting for a particular time in queue (Eg:15 min)
Gets its Priority increased by 1.
Eg: If a process has priority 10 then it will reach priority 1 in (15*10) 150 mins.

 
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July 02, 2009 18:06:51   #2  
raj_smart Member Since: July 2009   Contribution: 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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What is Starvation? How starvation is avoided in UNIX and WINDOWS Operating System? 
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