Process Management

Process management is the part of the operating system that handles running programs.

When you open Chrome, VS Code, Spotify, or a terminal, the OS has to decide:

• What should be loaded into memory?
• Which process gets CPU time?
• What happens when a process waits for I/O?
• How does the CPU switch from one process to another?
• How are multiple tasks kept responsive?

These questions belong to process management.

What comes under Process Management?

Process Management
├── Process vs Thread
├── Process States & Lifecycle
├── CPU Scheduling Algorithms
└── Multithreading vs Multiprocessing vs Multitasking

Start with Process vs Thread, because the rest of the topic depends on knowing what the OS is scheduling and switching between.