what are LRU, LFU in the OS concepts? How they are useful in
the scheduling?

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what are LRU, LFU in the OS concepts? How they are useful in the scheduling?..

Answer / alam

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LRU (Least recently used):
the process to wich CPU will assign will be the one which
is least recently used, in active processes queue.


LRU (Least frequently used):
the process to wich CPU will assign will be the one which
is least frequently used, in active processes queue.
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what are LRU, LFU in the OS concepts? How they are useful in the scheduling?..

Answer / mayur shetye

LRU , LFU are page replacement algorithms in os .
It scedules the manner in which the pages are swapped out
and swapped in memory !!!

"Least Frequently Used" is the best polycy for page
replacement in os !!!

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