proportional share scheduling
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Proportional share scheduling is a type of scheduling that preallocates certain amount of CPU time to each of the processes.{{Cite web | url=http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSFEP/cpu-sched-lottery.pdf | title=Scheduling: Proportional Share | website=pages.cs.wisc.edu}} In a proportional share algorithm every job has a weight, and jobs receive a share of the available resources proportional to the weight of every job.