August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
23h 1m
English
CHAPTER 7
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Resource Management
If resources were unlimited, there would be no need to manage them. We see this in all aspects of our daily lives. If your car were the only car on the road, traffic signals would not be necessary. If you were the only customer at the bank, there would be no need for the winding ropes that form orderly lines. But, as we all know, this is rarely the case, which is the same for database servers. When the load on the system is light, there is very little need for resource management. Processes complete in a fairly consistent period of time. But when the system gets busy and resources become scarce, we can find ourselves ...
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