Question

When a process exiting a critical section calls wakeup() , all the contending processes wake up at once. This is called _________ and _________ can be used to solve this problem. Thundering herd problem, Process queue Lost wakeup,Process queue Thundering herd , Semaphores Lost wakeup,Semaphores

Answer 1

Explanation:

Thundering herd problem and semaphore

Answer 2

Answer:

When the process exiting a 'critical section calls' wakeup (), all the contending processes wake up at once. This is called Thundering herd and Semaphores is used to resolve this problem.

Explanation:

The thundering herd problem occurs when a huge number of threads are waiting for an event to be awake but when it is awake then only one of the threads out of all can solve the or awake the event. And semaphore is a multitasking operating system used to solve this thundering herd in a Unix World.