Q. Benefits and Drawbacks of Batch System?

Benefits of Batch System:

• Move much of the work of operator to computer.
• Increased performance as it was possible for job to start as soon as previous job finished.

Drawbacks of Batch System

• Turnaround time can be large from user standpoint.
• Difficult to debug program.
• Due to lack of protection scheme, one batch job can affect pending jobs.
• A job can enter an infinite loop.
• A job can corrupt the monitor thus affecting pending jobs.