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One advantage of increasing a disk’s rotational speed is reducing the seek time of I/O operations.

Calculate the dosage.  Round to the nearest whole number An IV of 500 mL D5W with 200 mg of minocycline is to infuse in 6 hour. Drop factor 15 gtt/min. _____ gtt/mL

In the RAID1v mode of the P6 filesystem, if copies of a data block are different, then the data block of the disk with the highest index should be returned.

One way to solve the load imbalance problem in MQMS is work stealing.

You are given a stream of writes that appear on a disk that runs a Log Structured File System. However some of the entries from the segment are now missing and you are asked to investigate what those missing entries might be.    Assumptions: You can also assume that a single inode takes up an entire block (for simplicity). The LFS inode map is called the “imap” below and of course is also updated as needed. The inodes in this filesystem contain:    (a) size field which counts the number of blocks present in the file/directory    (b) ptr field which contains a list of pointers to data blocks    (c) type field which is ‘d’ for directories and ‘f’ for regular files

Hardware that meets the Popek Goldberg criteria can use the trap-and-emulate model for virtualization.

Linux CFS picks the process with the smallest vruntime when scheduling.

Checkpointing is the process of creating a journal transaction before making any changes to the rest of the file system.

A difference between hard links and symbolic links is that

Suppose that in a TCP communication that uses sequence numbers, the last message that the receiver process has seen has a sequence number of K. The next message that it receives can have a sequence number of K + 2