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What are typical durations of an operating system process/thread scheduling quantum? I realize that this can vary with the scheduling algorithm, priorities, workloads, hardware, etc., so I'm expecting answers to come with conditions/assumptions, or to be ballpark.

I can find examples that seem to suggest something on the order of 16 milliseconds from various OS class notes found via Google, but I have no idea how grounded in reality these examples are.

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Have a look here, scroll down to timeslice.

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