Operating System Concepts

Contents

1. Introduction to Operating System

1.1 Introduction

1.2 User view versus system view

1.3 System calls

1.4 Concept of virtual machine

1.5 Interrupt concept

2. Process Management

2.1 Process concept

2.2 Process control block

2.3 Process scheduling

2.4 Process operations

2.5 Interprocess communication

2.6 Communication in client-server

3. CPU Scheduling

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Scheduling concept

3.3 CPU-I/O burst cycle

3.4 Scheduling criteria

3.5 Scheduling algorithms

3.6 Scheduling evaluation

3.7 Simulation

4. Process Synchronization and Deadlock

4.1 Synchronization concept

4.2 Critical section problem

4.3 Monitors

4.4 Deadlock concepts

4.5 Deadlock prevention and avoidance

4.6 Deadlock detection

4.7 Deadlock recovery

5. Memory Management

5.1 Concept

5.2 Memory management techniques

5.3 Contiguous and non-contiguous allocation

5.4 Logical and physical address

5.5 Conversion of logical to physical address

5.6 Paging, segmentation

5.7 Segment with paging

5.8 Virtual memory concept

5.9 Demand paging

5.10 Page replacement algorithms

5.11 Allocation of frames

6. File Management

6.1 Introduction

6.2 File structure

6.3 Protection

6.4 File system implementation

6.5 Directory structure

6.6 Free space management

6.7 Allocation methods

6.8 Efficiency & Performance

6.9 Recovery

6.10 NFS & NTFS

6.11 Samba concept

7. Disk Management

7.1 Disk structure

7.2 Disk scheduling algorithm

7.3 Disk management

7.4 Swap space concept and management

7.5 RAID structure

7.6 Disk performance issues

8. Distributed Operating System

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Centralized versus distributed processing

8.3 Advantages of distributed OS

8.4 Types of distributed OS 8-6

8.5 Concept of Global OS (GOs)

8.6 NOS architecture

9. Features of Different Operating Systems

9.1 Linux

9.2 Windows 2000

9.3 Atlas

9.4 XDS 940 (1965)

9.5 The (1968)

9.6 Venus System (1972)

9.7 RC 4000

9.8 CTSS (1962)

9.9 Multics

9.10 IBM OS/360 (1966)

9.11 Mach (1981)

9.12 Operating systems integration

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