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title: "What is starvation in Operating System?"  
description: "What is starvation in Operating System?"  
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published: 2022-04-04  
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# What is starvation in Operating System?

What is starvation in Operating System?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

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- When high priority processes continue to run while low priority processes are stalled for an indeterminate period of time, this is known as **starvation.**
- A continual stream of higher-priority processes in a densely loaded [**computer**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95583/how-do-i-block-pop-ups-on-a-mac-computer-s-safari-browser) system can prevent a low-priority operation from ever receiving the CPU. When resources are scarce, high-priority processes consume them continuously.
- Aging can help to tackle the problem of hunger. The importance of long waiting processes is increasingly raised as people age.
- High-priority processes continue to run, whereas low-priority activities are halted.
- High-priority processes consume resources on a constant basis.
- Processes are ranked in order of importance.

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