%0 Journal Article %T Recourse Management Using a Fair Share Scheduler %A Suja Cherukullapurath Mana %J International Journal of Computer Science and Security %D 2012 %I Computer Science Journals %X Resource management is a vital task of all operating systems. It is the responsibility of operatingsystem to ensure that all programs requesting resources are getting resources in a timelymanner. Various recourse allocation strategies are there which provide guidance for operatingsystems to make resource allocation decisions. This article studies about the resourcemanagement using a fare share scheduler. The fair share scheduler ensures that resources areallocated to programs in an efficient manner and this ensures fairness in resource allocation. %K Fairness %K Fair Share Scheduling %U http://cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJCSS/volume6/Issue1/IJCSS-597.pdf