Proportional share scheduling is a type of
scheduling
A schedule (, ) or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things ...
that preallocates certain amount of
CPU time
CPU time (or process time) is the amount of time that a central processing unit (CPU) was used for processing instructions of a computer program or operating system. CPU time is measured in clock ticks or seconds. Sometimes it is useful to con ...
to each of the processes.
In a proportional share algorithm every job has a weight, and jobs receive a share of the available resources proportional to the weight of every job.
References
Processor scheduling algorithms
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