About philosophers

The project is solving the classic concurrency problem - dining philosophers problem in different ways.

This project is a good lesson in optimizing C code. It is necessary to monitor CPU consumption so that the program can work with a large number of simultaneous processes.

The project consists of 2 programs.

• Philo: using mutexes and threads.
• Philo bonus: using multi-processes and semaphores

How to run:

1. Compile with make from 'philo' or 'philo_bonus' directory
2. Run using ./philo [number_of_philo] [time_to_die] [time_to_eat] [time_to_sleep] (e.g. ./philo 5 800 200 200)