The term "aging" refers to
- A. booting up the priority of a process in multi-level of queue without feedback
- B. gradually increasing the priority of jobs that wait in the system for a long time to remedy infinite blocking
- C. keeping track of the following a page has been in memory for the purpose of LRU replacement
- D. letting job reside in memory for a certain amount of time so that the number of pages required can be estimated accurately
Answer: B. gradually increasing the priority of jobs that wait in the system for a long time to remedy infinite blocking
Explanation: Aging is a technique to prevent starvation by gradually increasing the priority of processes waiting for a long time.