Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:26:52 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Process questions Message-ID: <20030528062652.GA86574@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <000801c324c8$851e4b00$048c250a@tek> References: <000801c324c8$851e4b00$048c250a@tek>
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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:23:33AM -0300, Alan Tek wrote: > Hi i'm a Computer Science student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and i am doing a paper on FreeBSD, and i was wondering if someone could help answer a couple questions on processes for me? > > o What states do processes move through? > > o How does the OS execute? (within the context of user processes.. as a separate process?) > > o How are new processes created? Who can create them? > > o What are the most important scheduling criteria for this OS? > > o How does the short-term scheduler select the next process to place in the CPU? What's the selection function? What's the decision mode? > > o Is there a single ready queue or multiple ready queues? Read through the articles directory in /usr/share/doc/, there are a few papers there which might help.
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