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What is starvation and aging?

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Starvation:
Starvation is a resource management problem where a process does not get the resources it needs for a long time because the resources are being allocated to other processes.

Aging:
Aging is a technique to avoid starvation in a scheduling system. It works by adding an aging factor to the priority of each request. The aging factor must increase the request?s priority as time passes and must ensure that a request will eventually be the highest priority request (after it has waited long enough)

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