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Questions about the principles of software that interfaces between hardware and applications.

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Choices in cpu-scheduling decisions

This post answers major part of your question. Does that mean the CPU becomes idle? It can, but the chances are extremely slim. The goal of scheduling is to maximise cpu utilization, in modern opera …
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Exceeding limits of virtual address space

I still am confused whether I am asking the right question but here goes Consider a X bit processor. It can address theoretically a main memory of 2^x bytes(assuming byte addressable). Now consider an …
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Tigers and elephants can't drink water from a pond simultaneously, while more than one tiger...

Your approach is allowing the tiger and elephant to simultaneously enter the pond. Consider the case when there are no tigers or elephants and both of them approach the pond. The control of your progr …
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Page/Frame VS Block

Paging is a non-contiguous, fixed size partitioning method to allocate memory to a process. The process(virtual address space/virtual memory) is divided into fixed size partitions(pages) and then load …
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