When is overhead nonexistent in executing processes?

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If I have 5 processes arrive at the CPU all at different times in a CPU Burst with shortest process next scheduling, would overhead only exist if, lets say process one finishes before the next process arrives? The overhead being the idletime of the CPU?

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toddmo On BEST ANSWER

You should think about the number of cpus. If two processes are using the same cpu, they will compete and slow the overall finish time down. A cpu switching between different processes or threads can slow things down more than idle time. So I would keep it to one process at a time per CPU.