Top "Scheduling" questions

In computer science, scheduling is the method by which threads, processes or data flows are given access to system resource.

What is the Windows version of cron?

A Google search turned up software that performs the same functions as cron, but nothing built into Windows. I'm running …

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How to calculate Average Waiting Time and average Turn-around time in SJF Scheduling?

In SJF (Shortest Job First) Scheduling method. How to calculate Average Waiting Time and average Turn-around time? Is Gannt Chart …

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VBA Macro On Timer style to run code every set number of seconds, i.e. 120 seconds

I have a need to run a piece of code every 120 seconds. I am looking for an easy way to …

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How might I schedule a C# Windows Service to perform a task daily?

I have a service written in C# (.NET 1.1) and want it to perform some cleanup actions at midnight every night. …

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Selecting a Linux I/O Scheduler

I read that it's supposedly possible to change the I/O scheduler for a particular device on a running kernel …

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Java Timer vs ExecutorService?

I have code where I schedule a task using java.util.Timer. I was looking around and saw ExecutorService can …

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Is there a job scheduler library for node.js?

Is there some cron like library that would let me schedule some function to be ran at certain time (15:30 for …

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What is an uninterruptible process?

Sometimes whenever I write a program in Linux and it crashes due to a bug of some sort, it will …

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How can I see which CPU core a thread is running in?

In Linux, supposing a thread's pid is [pid], from the directory /proc/[pid] we can get many useful information. For …

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How to parameterize @Scheduled(fixedDelay) with Spring 3.0 expression language?

When using the Spring 3.0 capability to annotate a scheduled task, I would like to set the fixedDelay as parameter from …

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