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| What are the four benefits to multithreaded programming? |
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Definition
Responsiveness
Resource Sharing
Economy
Scalability |
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| What are the two levels that thread support can be provided at? |
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| User level or kernel level |
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| There are three common ways of establishing the relationship of user threads to kernel threads. What are they? |
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Definition
| Many-To-One model (many users to one kernel)
One-To-One model (each user to a kernel)
Many-to-Many (many user to a smaller or = number of kernel) |
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Term
| What are the issues to consider with multithreaded programming? |
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Definition
Cancellation
The fork() and exec() system calls
Scheduler activations
Signal handling
Thread pools
Thread-specific data |
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Term
| In a single processor system, how many processes can run at a time? |
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Definition
| One, all others must wait until the CPU is free |
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Term
| When does the short-term scheduler select the next process from the ready queue? |
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Definition
| when the CPU becomes idle |
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