Chapter 3 - Operating Systems - Section 3.3 - Coordinating the Machine's Activities - Questions & Exercises - Page 155: 4

If each process consumed its entire time slice, the machine could provide a complete slice to almost 20 processes in one second. If processes did not consume their entire time slices, this value could be much higher, but then the time required to perform a context switch might become more significant (see Question 5).

If each process consumed its entire time slice, the machine could provide a complete slice to almost 20 processes in one second. If processes did not consume their entire time slices, this value could be much higher, but then the time required to perform a context switch might become more significant (see Question 5).