Most viewed questions under tag operating system

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Open system call in linux

posted May 10, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey

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I am using windows 10 Single Language, Wifi driver disappeared while using internet ?What to do?

posted Mar 13, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey

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Few questions about Cache memory

posted Feb 25, 2016 by Chirag Gangdev

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In multiprocessing OS each processor takes a process individually or divide each process for multiple processors?

posted May 2, 2018 by anonymous

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How does CPU interact with Memory, What all System call being generates during interaction?

posted Nov 30, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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How can we detect OS of the client machine using JavaScript?

posted Aug 7, 2017 by Satish Mn

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How does Linux system handle background process internally ?

posted Jan 21, 2015 by Vikram Singh

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Describe Main memory and Secondary memory storage in brief.

posted Apr 7, 2016 by Latha

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What different kinds of SmartPhone OS are there?

posted Mar 3, 2017 by Atindra Kumar Nath

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What is plumbing / piping?

posted Apr 9, 2016 by Sathaybama

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What is a Network operating System and how it is different with popular OS like Linux/Windows etc...

posted Jul 13, 2015 by anonymous

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What does signify the following terms in the context of an operating system ?

posted Jan 26, 2015 by Harshita

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OS: What is priority Inversion and priority inheritance ?

posted Sep 22, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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What are the types of time slicing in operating system?

posted Nov 19, 2015 by anonymous

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Ive been hosting my rails apps on freebsd Anyone have preferences which OS to host on?

posted Aug 5, 2018 by anonymous

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List out some reasons for process termination?

posted Mar 30, 2016 by Latha

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What is a trap and trapdoor?

posted May 14, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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What is a drawback of MVT ?

posted Nov 27, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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In loading programs into memory, what is the difference between load-time dynamic linking and run-time dynamic linking?

posted Mar 30, 2016 by Latha

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Please explain paging and demand paging process in detail?

posted Jul 24, 2015 by anonymous

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OS: What is the meaning of mutex ?

posted Nov 27, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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Enhanced Second-Chance Algorithm vs simpler clock algorithm

posted May 31, 2017 by anonymous

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What is disk interleaving and why is disk interleaving adopted?

posted Aug 24, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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In the ps results few of the processes are having process state as "D" . What does it mean ?

posted Sep 29, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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How NOS differ from any other OS ?

posted Oct 17, 2014 by Harshita

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How do you find which processes are using a particular file?

posted Dec 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What sort of technique you would use to update a set of files over a network, where a server contains the master copy?

posted Aug 24, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is the minimum size of stack is assigned to a process?

posted Sep 10, 2015 by anonymous

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What are the main difference between Micro-Controller and Micro- Processor?

posted Aug 18, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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Media Server: OAMP: What are maintenance procedures?

posted Jun 15, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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You have an IP address in your network how will you find hostname and vice versa?

posted Oct 14, 2015 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is process synchronization ?

posted Dec 6, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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OS: When a thread is considered as worker thread and how it's functionality is different from other threads ?

posted Nov 20, 2016 by Neeraj Mishra

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Is address line will impact on ram size and OS?

posted Oct 15, 2017 by Naveen Kumar

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What is the typical sector size in an operating system?

posted Nov 19, 2015 by anonymous

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Difference between micro and macro kernal ?

posted Nov 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What's the basic difference between hardware and software solutions for critical section problem?

posted May 4, 2018 by anonymous

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What does the swapping system do if it identifies the illegal page for swapping?

posted Jan 6, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is the important aspect of a real-time system or Mission Critical Systems?

posted Feb 25, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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What is logical and physical address space ?

posted Dec 11, 2014 by Harshita

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Process of recurrent computerisation process?

posted Aug 29, 2018 by Namatuungo Norah

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OS: Does the OS scheduling depends on the underlying hardware ?

posted Jun 1, 2016 by Vikram Singh

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How spooling removes the drawback of serial processing?

posted Jul 18, 2016 by anonymous

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What are the primary functions of VFS?

posted Apr 8, 2016 by Latha

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How are the wait/signal operations for monitor different from those for semaphores?

posted Mar 30, 2016 by Latha

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What does mean of Data Execution Prevention in context OS?

posted Dec 7, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is the difference among VIRT, RES, and SHR in top output in Linux memory management?

posted Oct 30, 2015 by Manikandan J

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What are the sub-components of I/O manager in Windows NT?

posted May 11, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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Do You know why safari not responding any fix solution?

posted Nov 20, 2018 by Alena Winslet

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What is Spooling in context of OS?

posted Jul 13, 2015 by anonymous