What is preemption ? context switching ?

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What is preemption ? context switching ?..

Answer / telugodu

Pre emption is releasing the process in order to serve
another process to utilize the same resource. Context
switching is the transfer of resource from once process to
another process.

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What is preemption ? context switching ?..

Answer / sm

Preemption in computing is refered to interuption of
currently executed task by computer system or scheduler
without application's cooperation in order to be resumed
later. This process is known as context switching, when
equal time slices are assigned by pre-emptive scheduler

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What is preemption ? context switching ?..

Answer / meena

Preemption is when a task can be temporarily Interrupted &
expected to resumed later
Context switching is used for multi-tasking and Stores &
restores the CPU state.

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