Measures to Avoid the Convoy Effect in Operating System
Hence in Convoy Effect, one slow process slows down the performance of the entire set of processes, and leads to wastage of CPU time and other devices. To avoid Convoy Effect, preemptive scheduling algorithms like Round Robin Scheduling can be used – as the smaller processes don’t have to wait much for CPU time – making their execution faster and leading to less resources sitting idle.
Convoy Effect in Operating Systems
The Convoy Effect is a phenomenon associated with the First Come First Serve (FCFS) algorithm, in which the whole Operating System slows down due to a few slow processes.