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UWA week 37 (2nd semester, week 7) ↓

1st project Sleep sample solution (both)

2:21pm Fri 15th Sep, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> why is the CPU only idle for one usec? I thought it would be idle for the 10usecs that shortsleep is sleeping

Asked and answered (somewhere) previously. The process's sleep time occurs simultaneously with the transition time (RUNNING->SLEEP), so by the tiem the transition has occured, the request to sleep for 10usecs has been satisfied.