Resource Starvation (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In computer science, starvation is a multitasking-related problem, where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources. Without those resources, the program can never finish its task . Starvation is similar in effect to deadlock. Two or more programs become deadlocked together, when each of them wait for a resource occupied by another program in the same set. On the other hand, one or more programs are in starvation, when each of them is waiting for resources that are occupied by programs, that may or may not be in the same set that are starving. Moreover, in a deadlock, no program in the set changes its state. There may be a similar situation called livelock, where the processes changes their states continually, but cannot progress.