Question: Consider a system with N users, a CPU and two disks. A request from the users first visits the CPU. After processing at the CPU,

Consider a system with N users, a CPU and two disks. A request from the users first
visits the CPU. After processing at the CPU, with probability 0.8 the request visits disk
A,0.16 it visits disk B and 0.04 it is completed and returns to the user. After processing
at either disk, the request returns to the CPU. The mean think time at the users is 5
seconds, the mean processing times (per visit) at the CPU, disk A, and disk B are 30,25
and 40 milliseconds, respectively.
(a) What is the bottleneck device?

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