System internals, process management, memory, file systems, and kernel programming
← Back to Computer ScienceUnderstand the fundamental role and structure of operating systems in computer architecture.
Master process creation, execution, and lifecycle management in operating systems.
Learn algorithms and strategies for efficiently allocating CPU time among processes.
Understand lightweight processes and concurrent execution within single address spaces.
Solve coordination problems between concurrent processes and threads.
Understand and prevent system deadlocks through detection, avoidance, and recovery.
Explore how operating systems manage and allocate physical and virtual memory.
Master virtual memory systems that enable programs larger than physical memory.
Understand how operating systems organize and manage persistent storage.
Learn how operating systems manage input/output operations and device communication.
Implement security mechanisms to protect system resources and user data.
Explore operating system concepts in networked and distributed computing environments.
Analyze and optimize operating system performance through monitoring and tuning.
Explore contemporary developments and future directions in operating system design.
Understand the fundamental role and structure of operating systems in computer architecture.
Learn the definition, purpose, and essential functions of operating systems as system software intermediaries.
Understand resource management, user interface provision, and system security as primary OS objectives.
Master the interface between user programs and the kernel through system call mechanisms.
Distinguish between privileged kernel execution and restricted user program execution modes.
Compare monolithic, microkernel, layered, and hybrid operating system architectural approaches.
Trace the development of operating systems from batch processing to modern distributed systems.
Analyze contemporary operating systems like Linux, Windows, macOS, and their design choices.
Measure OS effectiveness through throughput, response time, utilization, and fairness metrics.
Master process creation, execution, and lifecycle management in operating systems.
Understand processes as program instances with Process Control Blocks containing execution state.
Learn the process lifecycle through new, ready, running, waiting, and terminated states.
Master fork(), exec(), and exit() system calls for process lifecycle management.
Understand parent-child relationships and process trees in Unix-like operating systems.
Learn how the OS saves and restores process state during CPU scheduling transitions.
Implement inter-process communication through pipes, message queues, and shared memory.
Design efficient communication mechanisms using shared address spaces between processes.
Coordinate process execution and resource access to maintain system consistency.
Learn algorithms and strategies for efficiently allocating CPU time among processes.
Evaluate scheduling algorithms using turnaround time, waiting time, response time, and throughput.
Implement First-Come-First-Served scheduling with its simplicity and convoy effect characteristics.
Optimize average waiting time through shortest job first scheduling in preemptive and non-preemptive forms.
Provide fairness through time-sliced CPU allocation with configurable quantum periods.
Allocate CPU based on process priorities while handling starvation through aging mechanisms.
Organize processes into multiple queues with different scheduling algorithms for each level.
Meet timing constraints in real-time systems through deadline-driven scheduling algorithms.
Distribute processes across multiple CPUs considering load balancing and processor affinity.
Understand lightweight processes and concurrent execution within single address spaces.
Learn how threads provide concurrency within processes with shared memory and reduced overhead.
Compare user-level thread management with kernel-level threading implementations and trade-offs.
Understand many-to-one, one-to-one, and many-to-many threading models and their characteristics.
Implement multithreaded programs using POSIX thread libraries and threading primitives.
Coordinate thread execution using mutexes, condition variables, and other synchronization mechanisms.
Manage thread lifecycle efficiently through pre-allocated thread pools for better performance.
Maintain per-thread data storage while sharing the process address space among threads.