Computer Science 322 Operating Systems Mount Holyoke College Spring 2008

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Lab 1 due Wednesday at the start of class
  • Extra office/lab hours tonight, about 6:30-8:00
  • We'll talk more about threads, pthreads in particular, a bit later in the semester
• Lecture assignment recap (during CPU scheduling discussion)
• CPU scheduling
  • Long-term, short-term, medium-term scheduling
  • CPU burst times, process categorization
  • CPU scheduling goals
  • Relationship between response time and throughput
  • Scheduling algorithms:
    • FCFS
    • SJF/SRTF
  • Comparisons of scheduling algorithms

Lecture Assignment

Please look at these questions, but there is no need to turn them in. We will discuss them in class on Wednesday.

Turn in short answers to this question. Please turn in a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) at the start of class, Wednesday, February 13. We will discuss these questions during class, so no late submissions are accepted.