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UWA week 34 (2nd semester, week 5) ↓

1st project The role of the time quantum (all 6)

1:27pm Wed 23rd Aug, Christopher M.

"Anay Joshi" <23*6*5*6@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> So I'm a little confused at how the time-quantum would affect the total time processes spend on the CPU. I get that it may affect the responsiveness of processes, but for the purposes of this project, how would the time-quantum impact the total time?

Just in the very standard way. Suppose a process has (only) 150usecs of computation to perform, before it exits. When it first gets on to the CPU it runs for the time-quantum of 100usecs, then it is kicked-off the CPU. It eventually returns to the CPU for its remaining 50usecs of computation, then it exits.