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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.