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Understanding how HP-UX manages processes will help you better interpret how your system carries out its computations. This white paper/chapter discusses:

  • What a process is.

  • What kernel threads are.

  • Process creation, execution, and termination.

  • Process-management structures for process scheduling, run queues, scheduling, context switching.



Chapter 1 Process Management
  		 


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