A video streaming server handles encoding jobs with varying deadlines; what happens to the server's ability to meet deadlines as CPU load nears 100%?

💡 Explanation

As CPU load increases, the operating system's process scheduler spends more time context-switching, because CPU cycles become a bottleneck. Therefore, jobs take longer to complete, and more deadlines are missed, rather than all deadlines being met or arrival rates declining.

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