CS3013 Third Exam Topic Outline

The pages from the text for the second exam are:

• pp 89-92
• pp 107-128
• pp 508-523

In addition, we passed out code samples system-parallel.h (modifications to the system header file) and use-proc-table.c (modifications to the SelectProcessToRun() function) to allow for a two-processor OS.

Here is a topic outline:

• Virtual Memory
  • Page fault
  • Page replacement algorithms
  • Thrashing
  • Paging tradeoffs
• Threads
  • Concepts
  • Tradeoffs
• Project 3 -- Hey There
  • Client - Server issues
  • Socket wrapper calls
    • sockcreate()
    • sockaccept()
    • sockconnect()
• Project 4 -- Hey, Hey, Hey
  • Server threading
  • Client threading
  • Pthreads library
    • pthread_create_thread()
    • pthread_destroy_thread()
    • pthread_join()
    • pthread_mutex_init()
    • pthread_mutex_lock()
    • pthread_mutex_unlock()
    • pthread_mutex_destroy()

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