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UWA week 35 (2nd semester, week 6) ↓

RUNNING state (all 4)

4:56pm Mon 28th Aug, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> If a process is running and it needs to move out to blocked, within that 10usec transition time, can another process from the ready queue go into running? Or do the processes need to wait for that 10usec transition time before the top process in the ready queue can start running

The actions necessary to perform a state transition are executed by the OS, using the single CPU. Thus only one state transition can occur at one time.