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Contention

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:29 pm
by silambarasan123
what is mean by contention

Re: Contention

PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:35 pm
by Robert Sample
Contention occurs when a resource (such as CPU, memory, channel, disk volume, tape volume, etc) is requested by two address spaces at the same time. Depending upon the specifics, they may both get access, or only one at a time may get access, to the resource.