Question 3.73

43. Using the lists you found in Exercise 37 and the task times you computed for those independent tasks, schedule the tasks for part (a) on four processors and the tasks for part (b) on five processors. Can you see why for any schedule you may produce for part (a) on four processors and part (b) on five processors, there must be some idle time for one or more processors?

43.

In part (a), 33 is not exactly divisible by 4; in part (b), 56 is not exactly divisible by 5.