A system has 6 identical resources and $N$ processes competing for them. Each process can request atmost 2 requests. Which one of the following values of $N$ could lead to a deadlock?
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
My attempt :
Deadlock free condition is :
$R \geq P(N-1)+1 ,$
Where R is total number of resources ,
P is the number of processes , and
N is the max need of each resource .
$6 \geq P(2-1) + 1$
$6 \geq P + 1$
$5 \geq P$
So , number of processes should be less than $5$ for deadlock free condition.
Hence, all options can not be deadlock .
In this exercise problem answer given option (4).
What I'm missing here ?