Q51. What is the solution of Thread starvation?

Ans: Fairness is the solution for Starvation. To implement this we should use Lock objects provided by Java and locks only critical section of the code rather than entire method. You have to write code properly so it can never arrives a starvation situation.

Q52. What is a slipped condition?

Ans: Lets assume we have two threads ThreadA and ThreadB. Now both thread progress depends on a signal (boolean flag named goAhead). ThreadA checks the value of goAhead flag ant it is true. So it go ahead but not started yet. Now, ThreadB change the value of goAhead flag to false. A thread can only return from the wait() method if it reacquires the lock on the object it's waiting on.

The current thread must own this object's monitor. The thread releases ownership of this monitor and waits until another thread notifies threads waiting on this object's monitor to wake up either through a call to the notify method or the notifyAll method. The thread then waits until it can re-obtain ownership of the monitor and resumes execution.

Slipped condition can be avoided using properly placing thread synchronization.

Q53. What is the meaning of Lock Reentrance?

Ans: By default we are using re-entrant lock when we use synchronization block in Java. It means same thread has taken the lock and calling another synchronized method from a synchronized method. It is allowed. See below code example.

public class HadoopExam{

   public synchronized first(){

    second();

  }

  public synchronized second(){

    System.out.println("Its allowed");

  }

}

Q54. When you are using Lock object, what is the best place in a method to call unlock() method?

Ans: It is possible your code can throw an exception. And thread does not release a lock, because it cannot reach the code segment which does unlocking. Hence, it is always suggested to put unlock call in finally block of the method.

Q55. What problem is solved by read/write lock?

Ans: When there is a shared resource and many threads are reading them at the same time then there is no problem. We can use normal lock class. But what happen, when we want multiple threads reading and few threads are also updating the shared resource. In this case shared resource must be updated by single thread at a time. And while writing is going on than further reading and writing should be allowed. Such type of scenario can be handled using read/write lock.