Disadvantages of context switching
List some of the disadvantages of context switching?
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Time taken by the processor in switching from one process to other is pure over head. Since, the system does no useful work while switching. CPU remains idle during this process thus decreasing the efficiency, Thus, one of the solutions is to adopt the threading whenever possible.
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