Things You Should Know About Job Scheduling (1)

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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JOB SCHEDULING
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One such automation tool to run the essence of
any organization or enterprise is Job scheduling.
It is the process of allowing defining and
maintaining a set of jobs, be it a program or a
message to be automatically executed at a given
time, frequency or when a specific event occurs
with the help of a job scheduler.
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There are two types of scheduling
Preemptive Scheduling- When a running process is
interrupted by process of highest priority
entering the queue and is allocated to the CPU,
its preemptive scheduling.
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Non-Preemptive Scheduling- When a running
process cannot be interrupted by any other
process and the any process entering the queue
has to wait till the current CPU cycle ends.

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Priority Scheduling- This is a non-preemptive
algorithm wherein each process is assigned a
priority. The processes with the highest priority
are executed first and so on. Processes with the
same priority are performed on first come first
serve basis.
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First Come First Serve- It is a non-preemptive,
preemptive schedule wherein jobs are executed on
first come first serve basis. Although its
easier to understand since its average waiting
time is high,
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