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Types of schedular

There are three types of scheduler:


• Long term scheduler
• Short term scheduler
• Medium term scheduler
1. Long-Term Scheduler
• Selects programs from the job pool and loads them into main
memory.
• Controls the degree of multiprogramming, which is the number of
processes in memory.
• An I/O bound process spends more time for doing I/O operations
whereas CPU bound process spends more time in doing
computations with the CPU
• So It is the responsibility of long term scheduler to balance the
system by loading some I/O bound and some CPU bound processed
into the main memoryExecutes less frequently, typically when a
process leaves the system.
• Changes the process state from new to ready when it selects a
process.
2. Short-Term Scheduler
• Also known as the CPU scheduler, it selects processes ready for
execution from the ready queue.
• Allocates the CPU to the selected process.
• Executes more frequently than other schedulers.
• Changes the process state from ready to running when it selects a
process.
3. Medium-Term Scheduler
• When a process is in running state, due to some interrupt it is
blocked. System swaps out blocked process and store it into a
blocked and swapped out process queue.
• When space is available in the main memory, the operating system
looks at the list of swapped out but ready processes.
• The medium term scheduler selects one process from that list and
loads it into the ready queue.
• The job of medium term scheduler is to select a process from
swapped out process queue and to load it into the main memory.
• This scheduler works in close communication with long term
scheduler for loading process into the main memory.

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