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what is ipc what are the various schemes availablethe term ipc inter-process communication explains various ways by which different process running
what is an advantage of executing a process in backgroundthe most common reason to put a process in the background is to permit you to do something
how would you kill a processthe kill command takes the pid as one argument this signifies which process to terminatethe pid of a process can be got
what is a daemona daemon is a method that detaches itself from the terminal and runs disconnected in the background waiting for requests and
normal 0 false false false en-us x-none x-none
what are the process states in unixas a process implements it changes state according to its circumstances unix processes have the following
types of categorizationthe subsequent categorization of parallel computers has been identified1 categorization based on the instructions and data
what is a zombiewhen a program forks and the child finishes before the parent the kernel still keeps some of its information about the child in case
how can a parent and child process communicatea parent and child can communicate by any of the normal inter-process communication schemes pipes
massively parallel systemindicates to a parallel computer system involving a huge number of processors the numbers in a huge number of processors
what are various ids associated with a processunix identifies each process with a unique integer known as processid the process that implements the
parallel overheadthe amount of time needed to organize parallel tasks as opposed to undertaking useful work parallel overhead may comprise factors
granularityin parallel computing granularity can be defined as a qualitative assess of the ratio of computation to communication1 coarse granularity-
communicationsparallel tasks normally have to exchange data there are various manners in which this can be achieved like over a network or through a
shared memory shared memory refers to memory component of a computer system in which the memory can accessed directly by any of the processors in
serial executionexecution of a program serially one statement at one instance of time in the simplest case thats what takes place on a one processor
task a task is logically discrete section of computational work a task is normally a program or else set of instructions which are executed by a
mathematical simulation and modelling applicationsthe tasks include mathematical simulation and modelling need lots of parallel processing three
ai applicationssearch is a important element of an ai system and search functions are executed on huge quantities of complicated structured data by
how the kernel handles both the page stealer and the fault handlerthe page stealer and the fault handler thrash because of the shortage of the memory
in what way the protection fault handler concludesafter finishing the implementation of the fault handler it sets the change and protection bits and
what does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swappingif the disk block descriptor does not have any record of the faulted
what is page fault its typespage fault refers to the situation of not having a page in the major memory when any process references it there are two
what are the phases of swapping a page from the memorypage stealer searches the page eligible for swapping and places the page number in the list of
what is page-stealer processthis is the kernel process that makes rooms for the incoming pages by swapping the memory pages that are not the part of