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Number of Running Threads

Question Text​

What is the maximum number of threads that can be in the RUNNING state at any time?

Question Answers​

  • All of them

  • Only one

  • It depends on the ISA

  • As many as the number of CPU cores

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A RUNNING thread needs a CPU core on which to run. Therefore, we cannot have more threads in the RUNNING state than the number of CPU cores.