You have been providing technical services to Computer Science labs on a regular basis and you notice that their systems are very slow. Using your technical experience, you checked the printing queue and realized that there are 100 jobs waiting to be printed by a shared printer. You quickly checked the processor utilization metrics and noticed that it was idling and at the same time, a printer was busy printing papers. It came to your attention that the processor was idling because it was waiting for the printer to finish printing before executing the next job. In your observation, what do you think is the problem? How would you improve processor utilization?

You have been providing technical services to Computer Science labs on a regular basis and you notice that their systems are very slow. Using your technical experience, you checked the printing queue and realized that there are 100 jobs waiting to be printed by a shared printer. You quickly checked the processor utilization metrics and noticed that it was idling and at the same time, a printer was busy printing papers. It came to your attention that the processor was idling because it was waiting for the printer to finish printing before executing the next job. In your observation, what do you think is the problem? How would you improve processor utilization?

Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

Section: Chapter Questions

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