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by dxdm 1044 days ago
Awesome idea, but it's too hard for me. In normal mode, I'm already clicking like a maniac in the first 20 seconds of the game, and red processes accumulate, even though I'm cycling out the blocked ones. I had one process killed because no IO event ever came for it. Easy mode seems to be the same, or actually even harder. I don't even get to the point where memory becomes an issue, but at this pace I don't want to.

Maybe I'm getting old, and I get that being an OS is stressful, but so is my job. I don't need another one!

With more forgiving pacing that starts out easy and then increases to keeps just outside of my comfort zone, this could be a very fun game.

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I had this same problem, where a process gets killed while waiting for an IO event that never came. All of the killed processes were killed in this state! Seems that there's no way to prevent this if it happens.
You have to click on I/O at the top when it goes from (0) to (1).
The thing is processes get killed before the IO event appears.
That's what computers are for, doing the repetitive stuff without freaking out for you :)
Maybe write a program that plays the game for you. It could be called You're the Operating System Operating System.