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What is \"Burst Time\"?

sanchayita

on 2011-08-14 09:30:00  

Burst time is an assumption of how long a process requires the cpu between I/O waits.It can not be predicted exactly, before a process starts. It means the amount of time a process uses the CPU for a single time. (A process can use the CPU several times before complete the job)

Mainak

on 2011-08-16 09:30:00  

It can be of two types...cpu burst and io burst..