After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Summarize key categories of I/O devices on computers, discuss the organization of the I/O function, explain some of the key issues in the design of OS support for I/O, analyze the performance implications of various I/O buffering alternatives,...
In this chapter, we begin a discussion of file systems at the lowest level: the structure of secondary storage. We first describe the physical structure of hard disks and magnetic tapes. We then describe disk-scheduling algorithms, which schedule the order of disk I/Os to maximize performance. Next, w[r]
Chapter 32 - Cisco IT Essentials Useful Practical Tips (Operating systems). The following will be discussed in this chapter: Brands and versions of operating systems, operating systems capabilities, network operating system (NOS), Windows OS directory structure,...
This chapter examines some more advanced concepts related to process management, which are found in a number of contemporary operating systems. We show that the concept of process is more complex and subtle than presented so far and in fact embodies two separate and potentially independent concepts:[r]
Discuss basic concepts related to concurrency, such as race conditions, OS concerns, and mutual exclusion requirements; understand hardware approaches to supporting mutual exclusion; define and explain semaphores; define and explain monitors;...
This chapter examines two problems that plague all efforts to support concurrent processing: deadlock and starvation. We begin with a discussion of the underlying principles of deadlock and the related problem of starvation. Then we examine the three common approaches to dealing with deadlock: preve[r]
The contents of this chapter include all of the following: Discuss the principal requirements for memory management, understand the reason for memory partitioning and explain the various techniques that are used, understand and explain the concept of paging,...
This chapter examines two problems that plague all efforts to support concurrent processing: deadlock and starvation. We begin with a discussion of the underlying principles of deadlock and the related problem of starvation. Then we examine the three common approaches to dealing with deadlock: preve[r]
The contents of this chapter include all of the following: Discuss the principal requirements for memory management, understand the reason for memory partitioning and explain the various techniques that are used, understand and explain the concept of paging,...
After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Describe the various approaches to virtualization, understand the processor issues involved in implementing a virtual machine, understand the memory management issues involved in implementing a virtual machine, understand the I/O management issues[r]
The contents of this chapter include all of the following: File system management and optimization, disk quotas (a fair distribution of disk space), file system backups, back up incrementally, logical dump algorithm, file system consistency,...
The various processes in an operating system must be protected from one another’s activities. For that purpose, various mechanisms exist that can be used to ensure that the files, memory segments, CPU, and other resources can be operated on by only those processes that have gained proper authorizati[r]
Chapter 17 examines various mechanisms for process synchronization and communication, as well as methods for dealing with the deadlock problem, in a distributed environment. In addition, since a distributed system may suffer from a variety of failures that are not encountered in a centralized system[r]
Lecture 15 - Memory management page replacement algorithms design issues. The contents of this chapter include all of the following: Background, topology, network types, communication, communication protocol, robustness, design strategies.
Chapter 16 looks at the current major research and development in distributed-file systems (DFS). The purpose of a DFS is to support the same kind of sharing when the files are physically dispersed among the various sites of a distributed system.
This chapter is primarily concerned with issues surrounding file storage and access on the most common secondary-storage medium, the disk. We explore ways to structure file use, to allocate disk space, to recover freed space, to track the locations of data, and to interface other parts of the operatin[r]
Web server: Serving Web pages to many clients. If requested page is available in the cache it is sent otherwise start a disk process to read page. • When the system is booted, many processes are created, e.g a process for incoming e-mail, process for up dating virus de[r]
In this chapter, you will learn to: To describe the basic organization of computer systems, to provide a grand tour of the major components of operating systems, to give an overview of the many types of computing environments, to explore several open-source operating systems.
The main contents of this chapter include all of the following: Computer system operation, I/O structure, storage structure, storage hierarchy, hardware protection, general system architecture.
The objectives of this chapter are to describe the services an operating system provides to users, processes, and other systems; to discuss the various ways of structuring an operating system, to discuss the various ways of structuring an operating system.