Thrashing
Explore how operating systems manage memory oversubscription through thrashing. Understand techniques such as admission control to maintain performance and how some systems use out-of-memory processes to cope with excessive memory demands.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Before closing, we address one final question: what should the OS do when memory is simply oversubscribed, and the memory demands of the set of running processes simply exceed the available physical memory? ...