Operating Systems

Process and its

Administration

Dr. M. Tanvir Afzal

 Process and its Administration

Process Administration
 Scheduler and Dispatcher.
 Scheduler maintains the record which
processes are present in the computer
system,
 Introduction of new processes.
 Removal of completed processes.

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Scheduler
 Maintains a process table in main
memory.
 Process name, its ID, initiated by,
priority, starting time, duration memory
area (obtained from memory manager),
current state etc.

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Dispatcher
 Component of Kernel that oversees the
process execution.
 Time sharing, multitasking,
multiprogramming,
 Time Slice in mili or microseconds.

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Process Switch
 Context Switch.
 Procedure of changing from one process
to another.
 Dispatcher awards a time-slice,
activates the timer circuit which
generates an interrupt

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Interrupt Handler
 When CPU receives an interrupt:
 Completes current machine cycle,
 Saves the current process
 Begin executing the program known
as Interrupt handler.

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Interrupt Handler
 Part of dispatcher.
 Describer how the dispatcher should
respond.
 Preempt the current process
 Transfer control back to dispatcher.
 Dispatcher selects the process from
process table having highest priority
from ready queue, time slice and timer
7 circuit.
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Multi-programming between Process A and

process B

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 Summary

Process and its administration

 Scheduler
 Dispatcher
 Context Switch
 Interrupt Handler