Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
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ISBN: 9781284123036
Author: Linda Null
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Chapter 11, Problem 18E

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Performance of the system and disk access speed:

  • System performance is considered as one of main factor of a processor.
  • It is used to determine the speed a problem can be solved.
  • It is also used to determine the factors such as number of problems that can be allocated at particular amount of time and also the number of problems that can be handled by the processor.
  • The speed of the CPU is a key factor that often decides the performance of the system.
  • Disk access speed is considered to be another factor that is used to determine the performance.
  • The access time is considered to be significantly higher than that of RAM which is almost in orders of millions.
  • The access speed of the disk depends on its rotation speed.
  • It is used to indicate how fast the sector that is required can be accessed.

Justification and recommendation given for the improvement:

  • Consider large number of request is considered to occur in a transaction processing system, the request is meant to wait in the form request queue until they are processed...

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