If you were designing a system with a web server connected to a database, would you use multiple processes or multiple threads and why?

Consider a slotted aloha system, where the time slot equals the fixed duration of each packet. assume that there are 4 stations a, b,c, d sharing the medium. (a) stations a, b,c, d receive one packet each from higher layers at times 1.3, 1.5, 2.6,5.7 respectively. show which transmissions take place when, according to the slottedaloha protocol; describe all transmissions until all four packets have been successful. when needed, each station has access to the following sequence of random number, provided by a random number generator and drawn uniformly between 0 and 1: (1) station a draws numbers: 0.31, 0.27, 0.78, 0.9, 0.9, 0.11, 0. (2) station b draws numbers: 0.45, 0.28, 0.11, 0.83, 0.37, 0.22, 0. (3)station c draws numbers: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0. (4) station d draws numbers: 0.36, 0.77, 0.9, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0. (b) in slotted aloha, a station transmits in each time slot with a given probability. what probabilities would you assign to each of the four stations so as to: (i) maximize the efficiency of the protocol? (ii) maximize fairness among the four stations? (c) will the efficiency increase or decrease if we modify slotted aloha as follows: (i) get rid of slots and allow stations to transmit immediately? (ii) implement carrier sensing? (iii) implement collision detection? (iv) implement collision avoidance?

Write the command that can be used to answer the following questions. (hint: try each out on the system to check your results.) a. find all files on the system that have the word test" as part of their filename. b. search the path variable for the pathname to the awk command. c. find all files in the /usr directory and subdirectories that are larger than 50 kilobytes in size. d. find all files in the /usr directory and subdirectories that are less than 70 kilobytes in size. e. find all files in the / directory and subdirectories that are symbolic links. f. find all files in the /var directory and subdirectories that were accessed less than 60 minutes ago. g. find all files in the /var directory and subdirectories that were accessed less than six days ago. h. find all files in the /home directory and subdirectories that are empty. i. find all files in the /etc directory and subdirectories that are owned by the group bin."

Write a program that performs a simple n-body simulation, called "jumping leprechauns." this simulation involves n leprechauns, numberd 1 to n. it maintains a gold value g_i for each leprechaun i, which begins with each leprechaun starting out with a million dollars worth of gold, that is, g_i = 1000000 for each i = 1,. in addition, the simulation also maintains, for each leprachaun, i, a place on the horizon, which is represented as a double-precision floating point number, x_i. in each iteration of the simulation, the simulation processes the leprachauns in order. processing a leprachaun i during its iteration begins by computing a new place on the horizon for i, which is determined by the assignment: