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Process

Oct 6, 2019
Apr 22, 2020

What is a process

A program which is loaded from HDD to RAM and is currently being processes by CPU.

How process are created?

  1. binary executables
    • originally written as text file in c,C++,rust etc
    • Then compiled to generate binary
  2. Internal shell commands
  3. Shell scripts

Hyperthreading vs CPU Cores

  • Multitasking - context switching
  • Hyperthreading - can run 2 processes at the same time

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