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Four necessary conditions for deadlock are non pre-emption, circular wait, hold and wait and

  • mutual exclusion
  • race condition
  • buffer overflow
  • None of above
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1. Belady anamoly occurs in

  • Optimal replacement
  • FIFO
  • LRU
  • both in FIFO and LRU

2. Daisy chain is a device for

  • connecting a number of controllers to a device
  • connecting a number of device to a controller
  • all of above
  • none of above

3. Semophores are used to solve the problem of

  • race condition
  • process synchronization
  • mutual exclusion
  • belady problem

4. If the property of locality of reference is well pronounced in a program

  • the number of page faults will be more
  • the number of page faults will be less
  • the number of page faults will same
  • none of above

5. A high paging rate

  • may cause a high I/O rate
  • keeps the system running well
  • is a symptom of too much processor activity
  • always creates a slow system
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