Ace Test Series: Operating System - Process Schedule

Question

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it should be 6

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I too think answer is 6 but it is given as 8.....

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According to me Answer is 6.

Answer 1

At last when p1 has 6 time units to complete it will go to ready queue and will get scheduled again... So that switching overhead has to be calculated

Answer 2

I guess the answer depends on the platform. According to the reference it should be 6.

Refer this:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8997616/does-a-context-switch-occur-in-a-system-whose-ready-queue-has-only-one-process-a