GATE CS 2017 Set 2 – Question 51

Numerical answer 2 marks Question 51 2017

Question 51

NAT 2 marks · no negative Operating Systems

Consider the following CPU processes with arrival times (in milliseconds) and length of CPU bursts (in milliseconds) as given below:

ProcessArrival timeBurst time
P107
P233
P355
P462

If the pre-emptive shortest remaining time first scheduling algorithm is used to schedule the processes, then the average waiting time across all processes is _______ milliseconds.

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Source: GATE 2017 Computer Science and Information Technology, Set 2 (question number approximate)