Question

The jobs are processes sequentially one after the other in this operating system​

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Multiple jobs can run in parallel and finish faster than if they had run sequentially. Suppose that two jobs, each needing 10 minutes of CPU time, start simultaneously. How long will the last one take to complete if they run sequentially? How long if they run in parallel? Assume 50% I/O wait."

Answer from textbook (Modern Operating Systems 4th edition by Tanenbaum)

"If each job has 50% I/O wait, then it will take 20 minutes to complete in the absence of competition. If run sequentially, the second one will finish 40 minutes after the first one starts. With two jobs, the approximate CPU utilization is 1 − 0.52. Thus each one gets 0.375 CPU minute per minute of real time. To accumulate 10 minutes of CPU time, a job must run for 10/0.375 minutes, or about 26.67 minutes. Thus running sequentially the jobs finish after 40 minutes, but running in parallel they finish after 26.67 minutes."

I don't understand why it will take 20 minutes for each job to complete if the IO wait time is 50%. Doesn't that just mean 5 minutes of CPU time is spent waiting for I/O?

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