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  • What are short, long and medium-term scheduling?


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  • Long term scheduler determines which programs are admitted to the system for processing It controls the degree of multiprogramming Once admitted, a job becomes a process Medium term scheduling is part of the swapping function This relates to processes that are in a blocked or suspended state They are swapped out of real-memory until they are ready to execute The swapping-in decision is based on memory-management criteria Short term scheduler, also know as a dispatcher executes most frequently, and makes the finest-grained decision of which process should execute next This scheduler is invoked whenever an event occurs It may lead to interruption of one process by preemption 


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