Question

What is the solution to starvation?

(a) the number of rollbacks must be included in the cost factor

(b) the number of resources must be included in resource preemption

(c) resource preemption be done instead

(d) all of the mentioned

I got this question in a job interview.

Question is taken from Deadlock Recovery in portion Deadlocks of Operating System

Answer 1

Right choice is (a) the number of rollbacks must be included in the cost factor

For explanation: None.