Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:48:36 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: RR |
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Joe Harrington wrote:
> When having 5 proceeses {A, B, C, D ,E}, with run times > A = 10 > B = 6 > C =2 > D = 4 > E = 8 > Why does round robin do A -> E -> B -> D -> C, > why not just use FIFO?
1. how would the OS know in advance what the run times of each process is?
2. how would YOU like fifo scheduling when it means your editor might have to wait 30 seconds for a compiler to finish?
regards,
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