This project was developed as part of the Ecole 42 curriculum.
philosophers is a project at Ecole 42 with emphasis on multithreading. It is a simulation that resolves the dining philosopher's problem.
The philosophers program was my introduction to multithreading and mutexes. You have to make the individual processes run in a synchronous manner without them talking with each other.
- Multithreading: Running multiple threads concurrently to maximize CPU utilization.
- Synchronization: Coordinating threads' access to shared resources to prevent conflicts.
- Algorithmic thinking: Creating efficient strategies for resource access without deadlocks.
- Mutexes: Controlling shared resource access by allowing one thread at a time.
- Deadlock Avoidance: Preventing indefinite thread/resource wait situations.
git clone https://github.com/tikanoja/Philosophers philo && cd philo && make./philo [number of times to eat]
./philo 5 800 200 200 10If you wish to make a similar project, I would highly suggest this Medium article by user Ana.
Some test values for you to try out!
No one should die:
5 600 150 140
5 800 200 200
105 800 200 200
200 410 200 200
One should die:
1 800 200 200
2 310 200 100
4 310 200 100