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UWA week 34 (2nd semester, week 5) ↓

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

5:11pm Thu 24th Aug, Christopher M.

"Asher Blechynden" <23*5*1*3@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> If the program runs for 200usecs, would it run for 100, be blocked, run 100, be blocked, then run 0 and immediately terminate or would it only be blocked once as the second block is arguably redundant

Firstly, let's use the correct terminology. A process whose time-quantum expires is not blocked, it moves from RUNNING to READY. Your process, above, would run for 100usecs, move to the READY queue, eventually move back to the CPU, run for 100usecs and, finally, call exit after 100 more users. The concept of running for 0usecs makes no sense.