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Scheduling

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Scheduling

Operating systems use schedulers to manage the jobs that are being completed by the CPU to ensure maximum use of processing time.

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Scheduling

  • Computers are now faster than ever and we expect them to do more and more complex tasks at the same time.
  • We also expect no delay or impact on performance.
  • Scheduling is a system that is part of the operating system that helps to make this happen.
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Types of scheduling

  • There are several key schedulers to be aware of:
    • Round robin.
    • First come first served.
    • Multilevel feedback queues.
    • Shortest job first.
    • Shortest remaining time.

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