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I have notes which touch on both, but there is no context as to why one is used vs the other, or how they differentiate?

They both seem to solve the Mutual Exclusion "problem", but still I feel...

makes sense!

Hello,

I'm trying to understand algorithm to this mutual exclusion problem/example:



repeat
(while turn != 0);
// critical section
turn = 1;

Thanks < I appreciate the time you guys took to help me out. Its one of those things that are so simple, certain texts dont even bother to explain, yet can mean the difference between getting the...

If anyone has good examples I can use to practice i would appreciate it.

What happens if the process runtime is less than the time quantum? Does the next process run immediately or wait until the...

"Suppose you wanted to know the time that P1 was NOT executing. "

I see how that works for P1.. but P2 would be 60-12 48. The example says P2 is 32.

"Look at the picture and count." I guess its...

Iv'e found many examples on the web, who also do not explain how these numbers were obtained.

Herm.. Pardon my slowness but i'm still not able to visualize or see what exactly is happening.
Care to elaborate a bit more with examples?

I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how average wait time is calculated with round robin.

Using the example below

http://i54.tinypic.com/2rhrd49.png

I simply do not know how the wait...

Thanks!
If I exclude the line, and the CPP to my project as a "source file"
all of the functions inside of implementation.cpp are not found.
Im probably doing something wrong there. What would be...

Please forgive me if this topic is redundant. I've searched and couldnt find anything.

I'm a bit confused here as i'm trying to split my cpp program into 3 separate files using Visual Studio.
...