Amazon Interview Question
Software Engineer / DevelopersWhen you say CPU utilization goes down to zero, are you talk about CPU utilization for this process alone. What is the memory utilization for this process, is it constant, If yes, Then, It may be due to high priority process switching the context and
- May be in a deadlock.
- Waiting for I/O.
But doesnt thrashing lead to CPU usage since on a page fault the page would need to be brought into memory from disk.Hence CPU usage should not be 0.
But doesnt thrashing lead to CPU usage since on a page fault the page would need to be brought into memory from disk.Hence CPU usage should not be 0.
A deadlock..
- Teja February 03, 2010