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Resource Management in Operating System

Resource Management in Operating Systems involves efficiently managing limited resources such as CPU, memory, and I/O devices among multiple processes. Key concepts include resource allocation, scheduling, deadlock prevention, and resource monitoring to ensure fair access and system performance. The operating system employs various techniques to optimize resource distribution and prevent issues like deadlocks.

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Resource Management in Operating System

Resource Management in Operating Systems involves efficiently managing limited resources such as CPU, memory, and I/O devices among multiple processes. Key concepts include resource allocation, scheduling, deadlock prevention, and resource monitoring to ensure fair access and system performance. The operating system employs various techniques to optimize resource distribution and prevent issues like deadlocks.

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Resource Management in Operating System

Resource Management in Operating System is the process to manage all


the resources efficiently like CPU, memory, input/output devices, and other
hardware resources among the various programs and processes running in
the computer.
Resource management is an important thing because resources of a
computer are limited and multiple processes or users may require access to
the same resources like CPU, memory etc. at the same time. The operating
system has to manage and ensure that all processes get the resources they
need to execute, without any problems like deadlocks.
Here are some Terminologies related to the resource management in
OS:
 Resource Allocation: This terms defines the process of assigning the
available resources to processes in the operating system. This can be
done dynamically or statically.
 Resource: Resource can be anything that can be assigned dynamically
or statically in the operating system. Example may include CPU time,
memory, disk space, and network bandwidth etc.
 Resource Management: It refers to how to manage resources efficiently
between different processes.
 Process: Process refers to any program or application that is being
executed in the operating system and has its own memory space,
execution state, and set of system resources.
 Scheduling: It is the process of determining from multiple number of
processes which process should be allocated a particular resource at a
given time.
 Deadlock: When two or more processes are waiting for some resource
but resources are busy somewhere else and resources are also waiting
for some process to complete their execution . In such condition neither
resources will be freed nor process would get it and this situation is called
deadlock.
 Semaphore: It is the method or tool which is used to prevent race
condition. Semaphore is an integer variable which is used in mutual
exclusive manner by various concurrent cooperative process in order to
achieve synchronization.
 Mutual Exclusion: It is the technique to prevent multiple number of
process to access the same resources simultaneously.
 Memory Management: Memory management is a method used in the
operating systems to manage operations between main memory and disk
during process execution.
Features or characteristics of the Resource management of operating
system:
 Resource scheduling: The OS allocate available resources to the
processes. It decides the sequence of which process will get access to
the CPU, memory, and other resources at any given time.
 Resource Monitoring: The operating system monitors which resources
is used by which process and also take action if any process takes many
resources at the same time causing into deadlock.
 Resource Protection: The OS protects the system from unauthorized or
fake access by the user or any other process.
 Resource Sharing: The operating system permits many processes like
memory and I/O devices to share resources. It guarantees that common
resources are utilized in a fair and productive way.
 Deadlock prevention: The OS prevents deadlock and also ensure that
no process is holding resources indefinitely . For that it uses techniques
likes resource preemption.
 Resource accounting: The operating system always tracks the use of
resources by different processes for allocation and statistical purposes.
 Performance optimization: The OS optimizes resources distribution ,
the reason is to increase the system performance. For that many
techniques like load balancing and memory management are followed
that ensures efficient resources distribution.

Diagrammatically representation of the Resource management :

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