Job Scheduling Algorithms – Q&A

Question 1[20 marks]
One of the main purpose of the Operating System is to control the hardware and more specifically the CPU. The CPU performs all the jobs/processes requested by the different applications. A scheduler is a program of the Operating System that manages the amount of time that is allocated to each job that the CPU needs to process. To do so the scheduler keeps a list of all the jobs that needs to be processed. This is called the job queue. The scheduler also uses a scheduling algorithm to determine in which order these jobs will be processed and the amount of processing time to allocate to each job.

The main job scheduling algorithms are:
  • FCFS: First Come First Served
  • Round Robin
  • Shortest Job First
  • Shortest Remaining Time First
  • Multilevel Feedback Queues
This question is based on the following job queue:
job-queue
For each of the following scheduling algorithms:
  1. Determine the order in which each job will be processed by the CPU (e.g. ABCD).
  2. Estimate the completion time for each job in the queue.
Current time: 01:00 (mm:ss) – Round Robin Time Slice: 1s
FCFS: ……………
    Job A: Completion time: 
    Job B: Completion time: 
    Job C: Completion time: 
    Job D: Completion time: 

Round Robin: ……………
    Job A: Completion time: 
    Job B: Completion time: 
    Job C: Completion time: 
    Job D: Completion time: 

Shortest Job First: ……………
    Job A: Completion time: 
    Job B: Completion time: 
    Job C: Completion time: 
    Job D: Completion time: 

Shortest Remaining Time First: ……………
    Job A: Completion time: 
    Job B: Completion time: 
    Job C: Completion time: 
    Job D: Completion time: 

Question 2[4 marks]
Some job scheduling algorithms can potentially lead to starvation? Out of the four algorithms listed in question 1, what algorithms can potentially lead to starvation? Explain what would cause this?
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