Throughput and Turn-around time

Question

Define the term given below:
a) Throughput,
b) Turnaround time,
c) Waiting time and
d) Response time

Answer 1

Throughput : It refers to the number of processes which complete their execution per time unit.

Turnaround-time : It is defined as the amount of time in order to execute the particular process.

Waiting time : It refers to the amount of time for which a process has been waiting in the ready queue.

Response time : It is defined as the amount of time it takes from when a request was submitted until the first response is generated, not the output (for time-sharing environment).