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Diving Into Some Core Operating Systems

The document provides an extensive overview of core Operating Systems concepts, including Process Management, Memory Management, Deadlock, File Systems, Synchronization, and Virtual Memory. It discusses key elements such as Process Control Blocks, CPU Scheduling Algorithms, Paging, Deadlock conditions, and Semaphore operations, along with examples and related concepts. Additionally, it highlights further topics for exploration, including multithreading, system calls, and I/O management.

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Diving Into Some Core Operating Systems

The document provides an extensive overview of core Operating Systems concepts, including Process Management, Memory Management, Deadlock, File Systems, Synchronization, and Virtual Memory. It discusses key elements such as Process Control Blocks, CPU Scheduling Algorithms, Paging, Deadlock conditions, and Semaphore operations, along with examples and related concepts. Additionally, it highlights further topics for exploration, including multithreading, system calls, and I/O management.

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Diving into some core Operating Systems (OS) concepts.

Here's an extended breakdown of the


topics you mentioned, with more examples and related concepts to strengthen your
understanding:

🧠 1. Process Management

a. Process Control Block (PCB):

 Contains info about a process: PID, state (running, waiting), program counter, CPU
registers, memory limits, etc.
 Acts as the identity card of a process.

b. CPU Scheduling Algorithms:

Algorithm Description Example


FCFS (First Come Executes processes in order P1 (0s, 4s), P2 (2s, 3s), P3 (4s, 1s) → Gantt:
First Serve) of arrival P1 → P2 → P3
SJF (Shortest Job Process with the shortest Same as above, but order: P3 → P2 → P1
First) burst time first (after calculating ready times)
Time-sharing, fixed time
RR (Round Robin) P1(5s), P2(4s), P3(3s) → rotate each 2s
quantum (e.g., 2s)

✅ Also Learn:

 Preemptive vs Non-preemptive scheduling


 Priority Scheduling

🧠 2. Memory Management

a. Paging:

 Logical memory divided into pages; physical memory into frames.


 Uses page table to map pages to frames.
 Example: Page 0 → Frame 4, Page 1 → Frame 2

b. Segmentation:

 Memory divided into variable-length segments (e.g., code, stack, data).


 Each has a segment number and offset.
 Example: Code segment, Stack segment, Data segment

✅ Also Learn:
 Internal vs External fragmentation

🧠 3. Deadlock

a. Necessary Conditions (Coffman):

1. Mutual Exclusion
2. Hold and Wait
3. No Preemption
4. Circular Wait

b. Deadlock Prevention:

 Eliminate one of the conditions (e.g., no hold and wait)

c. Deadlock Detection:

 Resource Allocation Graph (RAG)


 Banker’s Algorithm (for safe state)

✅ Also Learn:

 Deadlock Avoidance (e.g., Banker’s)


 Recovery techniques

🧠 4. File Systems

 Directory structure: single-level, two-level, tree, acyclic graph


 Allocation Methods: contiguous, linked, indexed
 File Access Methods: sequential, direct

✅ Also Learn:

 Inode (index node in Unix/Linux)


 File permissions (rwx)
 Mounting and file system types (FAT, NTFS, ext4)

🧠 5. Synchronization

a. Semaphore:
 Integer variable, 2 types:
o Binary (0 or 1)
o Counting (≥ 0)
 Operations: wait(P), signal(V)

b. Mutex (Mutual Exclusion):

 Used for locking; ensures only one thread accesses a critical section.

✅ Also Learn:

 Producer-Consumer Problem
 Reader-Writer Problem
 Dining Philosophers Problem

🧠 6. Virtual Memory & Thrashing

a. Virtual Memory:

 Allows programs to use more memory than physically available.


 Uses demand paging.

b. Thrashing:

 Excessive page faults → OS spends more time swapping pages than executing processes.

✅ Also Learn:

 Page Replacement Algorithms:


o FIFO
o LRU (Least Recently Used)
o Optimal

🔍 More Examples and Concepts to Explore

Topic Sub-Topics
Multithreading Threads vs processes, Thread lifecycle
System Calls fork(), exec(), wait(), exit()
Interprocess Communication (IPC) Shared memory, Pipes, Message queues
I/O Management Disk scheduling (FCFS, SSTF, SCAN)
Booting Process BIOS → Bootloader → OS Kernel
Topic Sub-Topics
Kernel Types Monolithic, Microkernel
Scheduling Metrics Turnaround time, Waiting time, Response time

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