Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deadlock and starvation


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The result was delete. MastCell Talk 20:44, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Deadlock and starvation

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Delete, appears to possibly violate WP:OR or WP:SYNTH primary resource is russian wikipedia. If a software expert comes through and this is indeed notable please drop me a line on my talkpage and I will withdraw the nom. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 03:36, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect To Multithreading (software). This is neither a pattern (such as thread pool) nor a type of parallel programming technique, it's a description of what happens when two processes (or threads) lock on an event or semaphore/critical section/mutex while trying to leave a wait state. It's not that the concept is not important (the differentiation between the two terms is), but it's just a an aspect of a larger topic. I'll also note that "as we shall show in chapter 7" might be indicative of a copyvio from somewhere, and since the "source" is the Mongol Wikipedia (not Russian), maybe it's a book in Mongol. Basically this is WP:OR, assuming again it's not a copyvio. This is the most plausible redirect I can offer... if someone would prefer some parallel computing topic I'm all for that too. § FreeRangeFrog  croak 05:07, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect per above. No content that would not already be mentioned, plus a possible copyvio. However, the title is a plausible search term. The original Russian article looks dubious too, but I can't say for sure, because I know next to none Russian. J I P  &#124; Talk 06:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:34, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per possible copyvio as noted above, and because the term is already adequately covered (and would provide a suggested search term in shortened form) under Deadlock.Vulcan&#39;s Forge (talk) 14:56, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Deadlock is already covered in Deadlock and starvation is already covered Resource starvation. Both of these articles are better sourced than the current article. Deadlock and starvation are concepts used both in multitasking (managing multiple processes in an operating system or multiple systems on a network) and multithreading (managing multiple threads in a process). Multitasking seems the more general term. --Mark viking (talk) 17:51, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. As the previous two users said, the information presented here is already available elsewhere is superior form. There's no sense in trying to preserve any aspect of this article. Ducknish (talk) 23:02, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
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