Here are some common mistakes and selected answers for homework 5

Question 8.5)
Part ii) Although a process has been receiving occasional service, its making only nominal progress.
Answer) i. accumulated execution time.
 
Question 8.6)
a. false    b.true        c. false       d. false.      e. true     This question asks to justify the answer when false.
 
 
Question 8.29)
part c) can processor bound processes suffer indefinite postponement?
No, because the alg would continuously "forget" recent processor usage until the process would again have a high enough priority to run.
 
Question 9.3)
In the answer, you must clarify the following:
Continues allocation
non-continuous allocation
Fixed partition multiple programming with absolute translation and loading
Fixed partition multiple programming with relocatable  translation and loading
variable partition multiprogramming
multiprogramming with memory swapping
 
Question 9.5)
The question has three parts, most of you failed to answer all the parts.