In dictionaries:
job scheduler
(computing) A software application that is in charge of unattended background executions known for historical reasons as batch processing.
packet scheduler
Windows Task Scheduler
Task Scheduler (formerly Scheduled Tasks) is a job scheduler in Microsoft Windows that launches computer programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals.
Completely Fair Scheduler
a process scheduler that was merged into the 2.6.23 (October 2007) release of the Linux kernel.
Brain Fuck Scheduler
a process scheduler designed for the Linux kernel in August 2009 based on earliest eligible virtual deadline first scheduling, as an alternative to the Completely Fair Scheduler and the O(1) scheduler.
Network scheduler
A network scheduler, also called packet scheduler, queueing discipline (qdisc) or queueing algorithm, is an arbiter on a node in a packet switching communication network.
Noop scheduler
The NOOP scheduler is the simplest I/O scheduler for the Linux kernel.
Deadline scheduler
Work-conserving scheduler
In computing and communication systems, a work-conserving scheduler is a scheduler that always tries to keep the scheduled resource(s) busy, if there are submitted jobs ready to be scheduled.
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