SYS 140: Processor Lab notes - WanderlustPenguin/Charles-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

  • every process on the system has an ID number
  • some processes are subprocesses of a parent process
  • closing the parent process closes all subprocesses
  • These combined set of processes are called a process tree
  • threads are a executing programs, and are part of processes
  • stacks are regions of memory where data gets removed or added in LIFO. modern computers give each thread a reserved region for its stack
  • sometimes something that seems like it should only open one process, like specific websites, opens several.