Chapter 18 discusses the internal operating system. Reading through this chapter

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Chapter 18 discusses the internal operating system. Reading through this chapter, I am almost reminded of how a 911 emergency call center should operate. Calls come into the call center and the operators are charged with dispatching emergency staff to the scene to respond to the calls. Should a minor traffic accident with no injuries in a parking lot be made more important than a large fire at a school? Of course not.
As an operating system must organize numerous programs that were likely all written by different people or companies, there is likely to be a problem more or less often. Should a resource intensive application like decoding and playing a DVD really take more processing time than you working on this discussion board?
Think about the term presented in this chapter: starvation. Describe a time when you experienced this concept in using a computing device? How did you notice it? Did you ignore it? If not, did you try to prevent it from happening again and if so how

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Answer) Starvation in computer system means that particular process wants to get executed but because of unavailability of the resources(being used by some other processes) the particular porcess can't get executed. It is starving for the resources at that point of time.

There has been a lot of times when I experienced such a situation. One example is : I used Cloudera for HADOOP in my laptop with 4gb RAM, but the machine could not start the CLOUDERA as it requires a lot of free RAM but at that point of time, the RAM was consumed by some other processes which makes the CLOUDERA to wait until the RAM gets cleared. As soon as i identified the issue,instead of ignoring that, I cleared some background processes which were using the RAM and thus making the RAM free for the CLOUDERA to open. Now to prevent it from happening again, I have extra 4GB of RAM installed in my system so that such a situation never arises again.

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