2023-09-06

Distributed Deadlock Management

Ways to deal with a Deadlock

There are 3 common ways to deal with a deadlock. They are

1. Distributed deadlock prevention
2. Distributed Deadlock avoidance
3. Distributed Deadlock Detection

Why is deadlock management tricky in the context of distributed systems?

1. Each site doesn’t have knowledge about the current state of the system
2. Each inter-site communication has a finite and unpredictable delay