There are four strategies of dealing with deadlock problem:1. The Ostrich ApproachJust ignore the deadlock problem altogether.2. Deadlock Detection and RecoveryDetect deadlock and, when it occurs, take steps to recover.3. Deadlock AvoidanceAvoid deadlock by careful resource scheduling.4. Deadlock PreventionPrevent deadlock by resource scheduling so as to negate at least one of the four conditions.
A deadlock occurs when two (or more) threads have created a situation where they are all blocking each other. ... Starvation occurs when a scheduler process (i.e. the operating system) refuses to give a particular thread any quantity of a particular resource (generally CPU).
Deadlock Prevention: o Preventing deadlocks by constraining how requests for resources can be made in the system and how they are handled (system design). o The goal is to ensure that at least one of the necessary conditions for deadlock can never hold. * Deadlock Avoidance: o The system dynamically considers every request and decides whether it is safe to grant it at this point, o The system requires additional apriori information regarding the overall potential use of each resource for each process. o Allows more concurrency. Similar to the difference between a traffic light and a police officer directing traffic. * Deadlock deduction:- Often, neither avoidance nor deadlock prevention may be used. Instead deadlock detection and process restart are used by employing an algorithm that tracks resource allocation and process states, and rolls back and restarts one or more of the processes in order to remove the deadlock. Detecting a deadlock that has already occurred is easily possible since the resources that each process has locked and/or currently requested are known to the resource scheduler or OS. Detecting the possibility of a deadlock before it occurs is much more difficult and is, in fact, generally undecidable, because the halting problem can be rephrased as a deadlock scenario. However, in specific environments, using specific means of locking resources, deadlock detection may be decidable. In the general case, it is not possible to distinguish between algorithms that are merely waiting for a very unlikely set of circumstances to occur and algorithms that will never finish because of deadlock. Deadlock detection techniques include, but is not limited to, Model checking. This approach constructs a Finite State-model on which it performs a progress analysis and finds all possible terminal sets in the model. These then each represent a deadlock.
A deadlock is when both sides can't agree on a decision or when something is stuck and can't move. In technology, a deadlock is a situation where a group of processes are permanently blocked as a result of each process having acquired a subset of the resources needed for its completion and waiting for release of the remaining resources held by others in the same group-thus making it impossible for any of the process to proceed.
A deadlock is a situation in which two or more competing actions are each waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does. In an operating system, a deadlock is a situation which occurs when a process enters a waiting state because a resource requested by it is being held by another waiting process, which in turn is waiting for another resource. If a process is unable to change its state indefinitely because the resources requested by it are being used by another waiting process, then the system is said to be in a deadlock.
No, deadlock occurs when two or more processes are waiting for resources held by each other, leading to a stalemate. In a single process, there is no contention for resources between different processes, so deadlock cannot occur.
A deadlock usually occurs when there are multiple threads running. Let us say there are 3 threads A, B and C running.A is holding resources X and is currently for the resource Y to complete the operation. B is holding resources Y and is waiting for resource Z to complete. C is holding Z and is waiting for X to complete. This is called a deadlock, All the 3 threads are waiting on some resources that are being held by other waiting threads. This causes an indefinite waiting which is termed as a Deadlock
Constitutional deadlock is a situation when at least two of the three organs (the executive, the legislative and the judiciary) is at loggerhead with each other. The deadlock occurs when one of the organ action(s) or decision goes beyond their jurisdiction. The other organ would attempt to counter / remedied the situation. It may take sometime before stalemate in the working process of the constitution is solved. See:http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/blog/zim2009/zimbabwe-constitutional-reform-should-govt-ministers-be-mps/ (very good reading) See: http://limboochang.com/?tag=constitutional-crisis-perak-pakatan-rakyat-pkr-activities-democracy-state-assemblies (the worsening of a deadlock) http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/the-17th-amendment-to-the-us-constitution/blog-214601/ (good example) See: http://gravamen.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/constitution-deadlock-sign-of-democracy's-frailty/ (additional reading on constitutional deadlock) See: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/2009/09/prachanda-dahal-hopeful-of-ending.html (political deadlock, but gives an idea what deadlock means.)
Deadlock occurs when two or more processes are waiting for each other to release resources that they need to proceed, resulting in a standstill. Starvation, on the other hand, happens when a process is continually denied necessary resources (such as CPU time or memory) and cannot progress, even though resources are being allocated to other processes.
A Deadlock is a situation of indefinite waiting where the system is stuck at a particular point and would do nothing useful. For example Method A is waiting for B's input while B is waiting for C's input and C in turn is waiting for A's input. Here all the 3 methods would continue to wait because they are waiting on one another and the system is stuck. A deadlock usually occurs while using threads. Threads can lock objects on which they are processing and when multiple threads are waiting for the same object a Dead lock may occur. The use of the synchronize keyword can be used to avoid such deadlock situations.
Deadlocks can be modeled using Petri Nets by representing processes as places and resources as transitions. In this model, tokens in the places signify the availability of resources or the state of processes. A deadlock occurs when there is a circular wait condition, where each process holds a resource that the next process in the cycle needs, leading to a situation where no process can proceed. The Petri Net structure can visually illustrate these interactions and the states leading to deadlock, allowing for analysis and identification of potential deadlock situations.
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