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• Process States
• Process Scheduling
• process
• threads
• process control block
• process states
• concurrent processes
• What is a process?
new terminated
admitted exit
ready
running
scheduler dispatch
I/O or event I/O or event wait
completion
blocked
• New
- a process has just been created
• Ready
- the process is waiting to be assigned to a processor
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Process States (cont.)
• READY - RUNNING
- instructions are being executed
- a process is using the CPU
- the number of running processes will depend on the
number of processors the computer has
ready running
ready new
blocked ready
• a PCB:
time slice
expired
child
fork a child
executes
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CPU Scheduling