SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS

OS scheduling algorithms aim to achieve various objectives, such as maximizing CPU utilization, minimizing response time, improving throughput, and ensuring fairness among processes. Different scheduling algorithms use different strategies to allocate CPU time, such as Preemptive or Non-Preemptive Scheduling, Priority-based Scheduling, Round-Robin Scheduling, Shortest Job Next (SJN) and many more.

Each scheduling algorithm has its advantages and trade-offs, impacting the overall system performance, response time, and fairness. Choosing an appropriate scheduling algorithm is a critical decision in OS design, as it directly affects the user experience and system efficiency. Understanding OS scheduling algorithms is essential for system developers, administrators, and users to effectively manage system resources, optimize performance, and ensure smooth execution of processes in a multitasking environment.

Each scheduling algorithm has its own trade-offs, and the selection of an appropriate algorithm should be based on careful consideration of factors such as turnaround time, waiting time, response time, fairness, and real-time requirements of the system. Scheduling algorithms are an important area of study in operating systems and computer systems, and researchers continue to develop new and improved algorithms to optimize the scheduling of processes and threads in modern computing environments.