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Decks in this class (25)

intro
What are some of the roles of the...,
What are some benefits of having ...,
What does the os include 3
10  cards
os designs
What is the monolithic os and how...,
Monolithic os 2,
What is the call structure of a m...
13  cards
processes
What is a process 1,
What is the role of the linker 2,
What is the role of the loader 3
27  cards
memory allocation
What is malloc used for 1,
What does malloc return 2,
Why do we use free after using ma...
20  cards
system calls
Why do we use system calls 1,
What are system calls 2,
How do software interrupt work 3
3  cards
memory allocation schemes
Fixed length allocation scheme 1,
Variable length allocation scheme 2,
Fragmentation 3
24  cards
input and output
What does memory mapped io do 1,
What is a memory bus 2,
What is the point of the io devic...
24  cards
io interrupts
Polling busy waiting synchronous ...,
What is a negative of polling bus...,
How does interrupt driven asynchr...
26  cards
io device drivers
What are device drivers 1,
Single instance devices 2,
Multi instance devices 3
15  cards
disk head scheduling
What is the aim of disk schedulin...,
What are some of the disk schedul...,
Scan edf 3
20  cards
RAID
Level 0 1,
Level 1 2,
Level 4 3
11  cards
multi-process systems
What are the 3 types of multi pro...,
What are real time systems and wh...,
How do batch systems work 3
42  cards
file systems
What are file systems 1,
Unlink operation 2,
Link operation 3
19  cards
file allocation
Contiguous file allocation 1,
What are two benefits of contiguo...,
What are two negatives of contigu...
23  cards
fat file system
What is the fat file system usual...,
How do we ensure resilience 2,
How is this system different to a...
6  cards
unix file system
Double triple indirect reference 1,
What is an inode 2,
Why is it a benefit that unix use...
20  cards
file system performance
What is the role of kernel tables 1,
What are the 4 types of caches us...,
Where are inode values valid and ...
17  cards
real time systems
What is a real time process 1,
What is a real time system 2,
Deadline 3
14  cards
memory protection
Blank 1
1  cards
journaling and file locking
How are journaling file systems f...,
How are journalling file systems ...,
Idempotent 3
13  cards
memory protection
How does base and limit work 1,
What is a benefit of base and lim...,
Logical address 3
27  cards
paging
Why do we create a hierarchy of p...,
What does the address look like f...,
What does the page directory cont...
29  cards
virtual memory
How does virtual memory work 1,
Swap space 2,
Where do we store the control inf...
35  cards
multi-processor systems
In which ways is it difficult to ...,
How does symmetric multiprocessin...,
In symmetric multiprocessing in w...
12  cards
virtualisation
Why do we use virtualisation 1,
What are some of the features of ...,
Clone 3
37  cards

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