CS 470 - Operating Systems

MWF 2, KC-131

Announcements

These are announcements made in class or via email currently in effect for this course.

Monday, February 17, Re: Exam 1 postponed until 2/26/03; additional homework problems
Since there is no time to schedule a review session before I leave for the conference on Wednesday, CS 470 Exam 1 is postponed until Wednesday, February 26. Class for this Wednesday, February 19 is canceled.

Since you'll have an extra week, the following two problems are added to Homework 4: Problem 7.9 on pages 237-238, Problem 7.11 on page 239.

The review session going over Homework 4 will be the regular class period on Monday, February 24.

If you want to pick up graded Homework 3, they'll be available during my office hours on tomorrow (Tuesday), and Wednesday morning.

Links

• Covers of previous editions of the textbook
• TUNES project review of Operating Systems. An impressive list of OSes.

Handouts

This is a list of documents and assignments created for this class in reverse chronological order. Most are available only on the Web. Some were also handed out in class. A few are hard copies only.

• Monday, May 5
  • Final Exam Review Sheet
• Friday, March 28
  • Exam 2 Review Sheet, and reading assignments for 4/4 and 4/7.
• Wednesday, March 26
  • Memory Management Project
  • Homework 7 (15 points):
    • Problem 11.8 on page 408.
    • Problem 12.1 on page 449.
    • Problem 14.19 on page 532.
    Due: Monday, March 31, at the beginning of class for the Exam 2 review, no late work accepted
• Wednesday, March 19
  • Homework 6 (25 points):
    • Problem 10.2 on page 364.
    • Problem 10.4 on page 365. "Good" and "bad" are in relation to the page fault rate that might be exhibited during the usage of the technique or data structure.
    • Problem 10.5 on page 365.
    • Problem 10.10 on page 367.
    • Problem 10.11 on page 367, show all your work for 3 frames for each replacement algorithm, and give a tabular summary for the entire problem (1-7 frames for each replacement algorithm).
    Due: March 26
• Wednesday, March 5
  • Schedule, Part 2. Includes case study presentation assignments.
• Friday, February 28
  • Homework 5 (30 points):
    • Problem 8.4 on page 267.
    • Problem 8.6 on pages 267-268.
    • Problem 8.13 on page 269.
    • Problem 8.14 on page 269.
    • Problem 9.5 on page 313.
    • Problem 9.10 on page 314.
    Due: March 19 (Wednesday after spring break)
• Monday, February 17
  • Case Study Guidelines
• Friday, February 14
  • Exam 1 Review Sheet
• Wednesday, February 5
  • Homework 4 (30 points):
    • Problem 7.1 on page 236,
    • Problem 7.4 on page 236,
    • Problem 7.7 on page 237,
    • Problem 7.8 on page 237 -- by "write a program," we mean write the pseudocode for a program in the style of the textbook using semaphores,
    • Problem 7.12a on page 239,
    • Problem 7.17 on page 239.
    Due: Monday, February 17 at the beginning of class for the Exam 1 review, no late work accepted
• Wednesday, January 29
  • Homework 3 (20 points):
    • Problem 6.9 on page 187,
    • Problem 4.6 on page 127,
    • Problem 5.1 on page 147,
    • Problem 5.2 on page 148.
    Due: February 5
• Monday, January 27
  • Process Management Project
• Wednesday, January 22
  • Homework 2 (20 points):
    • Problem 4.3 on page 127,
    • Problem 6.2 on page 185,
    • Problem 6.3 on page 185,
    • Problem 6.7 on page 186 -- Be sure to explain why.
    Due: January 29
• Wednesday, January 15
  • Homework 1 (20 points):
    • Problem 1.6 on pages 24--25,
    • Problem 1.11 on page 25,
    • Problem 2.10 on page 53,
    • Problem 3.6 on page 91.
    Due: January 22
• Monday, January 13
  • Syllabus and Schedule, Part 1