Questions tagged [process-scheduling]
Questions about how operating systems decide which process to execute at which time.
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What is meant by interrupts in the context of operating systems?
I've decided to read Operating Systems Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin Gagne (8th edition) over the summer. I've gotten to a topic that's confusing me - interrupts and their role as it relates to ...
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Does cooperative scheduling suspend processes when they perform an I/O operation?
Many operating systems references say that with cooperative (as opposed to preemptive) multitasking, a process keeps the CPU until it explicitly voluntarily suspends itself. If a running process ...
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