How Process Management Is Done in Linux?
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What is process management and how is it done in Linux?

A process means program in execution. … These are the processes which are to be executed or initiated by the user or the programmer, they can not be initialized by system services. Such processes take input from the user and return the output.

How are processes implemented in Linux?

Linux uses a reasonably simple priority based scheduling algorithm to choose between the current processes in the system. When it has chosen a new process to run it saves the state of the current process, the processor specific registers and other context being saved in the processes task_struct data structure.

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