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Ashutosh Anand
Ashutosh Anand

Reputation: 179

Background Processes in an Operating System

Its a general question , though I searched about it but couldn't match to an exact satisfactory answer ! An os runs many processes at a time and for switching of a process it uses the concept of time factor . My question is that whenever a process is ran and switched to another process the previous process is halted at that time . Then when we are running a media file(say some audio file) and minimize it ,, how it remains playing ??

Upvotes: 1

Views: 66

Answers (1)

peeyush
peeyush

Reputation: 2921

It's like Human visual persistence is about 1/16 of a second under normal lighting conditions.

Same way the "time factor" which is used by processor to schedule the process is minute so that user does not feel the difference.

Upvotes: 1

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