Process Scheduling

Question

Q)Round Robbin Scheduling is more suitable when:

a)Minimum Context switches are needed.                        b)More interaction is needed by the tasks.

c)High Priority process needs to be completed first.                d)None of the above

ans:b

need some explanation ?

Answer 1

Round Robin doesn't guarantee minimum context switches - in fact, it increase it.

Priority is also not taken into account while scheduling.

The crux of round robin is that each process gets serviced after a fixed quantum, thus maximising the interaction of the tasks.