Identify OS component causing process starvation
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This question evaluates understanding of process scheduling, kernel-level resource allocation, and starvation-related concurrency issues within the operating systems domain.
A system with 2 CPU cores runs 5 identical processes continuously. Four processes get equal CPU time, but the fifth appears to get none. Which part of the operating system should be examined to understand and fix why the fifth process is not running as it should, and what issues there could cause this behavior?
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