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In computing, scheduling is the action of assigning resources to perform tasks. The resources may be processors, network links or expansion cards. The tasks may be threads, processes or data flows. The scheduling activity is carried out by a process called ______
scheduler
Schedulers are often designed so as to keep all computer resources busy (as in load balancing), allow multiple users to share system resources effectively, or to achieve a target ______
quality-of-service
A scheduler may aim at one or more goals, for example: maximizing throughput (the total amount of work completed per time unit); minimizing wait time (time from work becoming ready until the first point it begins ______
execution
Scheduling is fundamental to computation itself, and an intrinsic part of the execution model of a computer system; the concept of scheduling makes it possible to have computer multitasking with a single central processing unit (CPU). == ______
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