Friday 9 March 2012

CPU Scheduler


  • Selects from among the processes in memory that are ready to execute, and allocates the CPU to one of them.
  • CPU scheduling decisions may take place when a process:
  1.  Switches from running to waiting state.
  2.  Switches from running to ready state.
  3.  Switches from waiting to ready.
  4.  Terminates.

  • Scheduling under 1 and 4 is nonpreemptive.
  • All other scheduling is preemptive.

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