PROCESS MANAGEMENT notes – Operating Systems

PROCESS MANAGEMENT

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• Definition of a Process and terms
• The Process Model
• Process Levels
• Process States Life Cycle
• Inter-process communication
• Race Conditions
• Critical Section
• Mutual Exclusion
• Using Systems calls ‘sleep’ and ‘wakeup’
• Semaphore & Monitor
• Process scheduling
• Definition
• Process Scheduling Queues
• Process scheduling and Job scheduling
• Schedulers
• Context Switch
• Process Scheduling Algorithms
• Deadlock
• Introduction
• Deadlock Characterization
• Resource-Allocation Graph
• Method for Handling Deadlock //Detection
• Description of Error Diagnosis