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Randeel Senevirathne
Randeel Senevirathne

Reputation: 1

I/o bound processors with Round robin algorithm

why does Round Robin algorithm doesn’t favor I/O bound processes and what changes could be made to fix this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1434

Answers (1)

blatinox
blatinox

Reputation: 843

An I/O bound process will use few CPU time before waiting I/O to be complete. A round robin scheduler will put it at the end of the queue even if it used a few of its quantum. A CPU bound process will use the CPU for the whole quantum it has.

Upvotes: 2

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