Practice Issues In Concurrent Programming (1.1.9) - Multithreading and Concurrency

Practice: Issues in Concurrent Programming

Lesson 1.1.9Multithreading and Concurrency

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Question 1.
What is a race condition?
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Think about how data can be affected by multiple threads.
Question 2.
What is one common cause of deadlock?
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Consider how threads might wait on each other.
3Question 3.
What is a race condition?
- A thread waiting indefinitely
- Multiple threads accessing shared data
- Two threads deadlocked
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Think about shared resources.
4Question 4.
Deadlock can be avoided by?
- Always acquiring resources in a strict order
- Ignoring resource allocation rules
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Consider resource management strategies.
Question 5.
Write a Java code snippet that might lead to a deadlock situation between two threads acquiring multiple locks. Explain why it leads to deadlock.
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Think about how resources are locked and the order in which they are requested.
Question 6.
Design a threading model where starvation can occur and describe its implications. What strategies could be employed to minimize starvation?
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Consider the scheduling policies in use.

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