first come first serve
processers are executed in the order they arrive
shortest job first
picks the process that takes the shortest amount of time
round robin
each process is giving a slice , fixed amount of time then moves on
shortest time remaining
similar to shortest job first but , pre emptive so more important jobs can take over
multi level feeback que
use of multiple cores for scheduling
what is an interrupt
signal sent by the cpu to show another process is in need of processing time