Interview Question

Created by admin on Sat, 17/11/2012 - 17:36
Question: 

What is meant by arm-stickiness?

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Answer: 
If one or a few processes have a high access rate to data on one track of a storage disk, then they may monopolize the device by repeated requests to that track. This generally happens with most common device scheduling algorithms (LIFO, SSTF, C-SCAN, etc). High-density multisurface disks are more likely to be affected by this than low density ones.