Aug2016 cs Q38

0. Consider a system having ‘m’ resources of the same type. These resources are shared by three processes P1, P2and P3 which have peak demands of 2, 5 and 7 resources respectively. For what value of ‘m’ deadlock will not occur ?

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Option : B
Explanation : To avoid deadlock 'm' >= peak demands(P₁ + P₂ + P₃) i.e. m >= peak demands(2 + 5 + 7) m >= peak demands(14) So, option (B) is correct.

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