Scheduling
Computer Science: OCR A Level, topic 2.1.8
Scheduling
Operating systems use schedulers to manage the jobs that are being completed by the CPU to ensure maximum use of processing time.
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.
Test yourself on Scheduling
Which of these is NOT a type of scheduler?