Medium-term scheduler – Is used to remove processes from memory and reduce the degree of multiprogramming (the process is swapped out and swapped in by the medium-term scheduler. Addition of Medium Term Scheduling Schedulers (Cont.)
Processes can be described as either:
– I/O-bound process – spends more time doing I/O than computations, many short CPU bursts.
– CPU-bound process – spends more time doing computations; few very long CPU bursts.
• If all processes are I/O bound, the ready queue will almost always be empty and the short-scheduler will have little to do.
• If all processes are CPU bound, the I/O waiting queue will almost always be empty, devices will go unused, and the system will be unbalanced.
• To get best performance the system should have a combination of CPU and I/O bound processes.
Dispatcher (short-term scheduler) - An OS program that switches the CPU from one process to another selected by the short term scheduler. It involves
- Context switching
- Switching to user mode
- It prevents a single process from monopolizing CPU time.It decides who goes next according to a scheduling algorithm
- The time it takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start another running is called dispatch latency
- The CPU executes instructions in the dispatcher while switching from process A to process B
Process Creation • A process may create several new processes, via a create-process system call, during execution. • Parent process creates children processes, which, in turn create other processes, forming a tree of processes. • Resource sharing, such as CPU time, memory, files, I/O devices … – The parent waits until some or all of its children have terminated
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