Give a brief discussion on schedulers & Dispatchers with
respect to process management.

Answer Posted / laxmi narayana.moru

scheduler:
schedulers are two types
1.long term scheduler(job scheduler)
2.short term scheduler(cpu scheduler)
job scheduler decides which process is to be loaded in
memory when more processes are in job pool.
short term scheduler decides which process is to be taken
the cpu time for execution when more processes are loaded
in memory.
dispatcher:
dispatcher is nothing but,which gives the control of the
cpu from one process to another process after completion of
process execution.

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