An algorithm designed to detect starvation by tracking how long each job has been waiting for resources is the same concept as ____.
A) deadlock
B) aging
C) preemption
D) round robin

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The concept of tracking how long a job has been waiting for resources is known as aging. Aging is used to prevent starvation in the prioritization of processes by gradually increasing the priority of processes that have been waiting for a long time. Deadlock is a situation where two or more processes are unable to proceed because they are waiting for each other to release resources. Preemption is the process of temporarily interrupting a task being carried out by a computer system, without requiring its cooperation, and with the intention of resuming the task at a later time. Round-robin is a scheduling algorithm in which each process is assigned a fixed time slice in a cyclic order.

An Algorithm Designed to Detect Starvation by Tracking How Long