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Operating Systems

15What a process is
16Process states: running, ready, blocked
17The process control block
18Context switching
19fork: creating processes
20exec: replacing a program
21wait and zombies
22Orphans and the init process
23What the scheduler decides
24First-come-first-served and shortest-job-first
25Round robin and time slices
26Priority scheduling
27Multi-level feedback queues
28The Linux CFS scheduler
29Real-time scheduling
30Measuring scheduler behavior
31Threads vs. processes
32User threads vs. kernel threads
33The thread API: pthreads
34Why threads share memory
35Thread pools
36Green threads and async runtimes

Operating Systems

15What a process is
16Process states: running, ready, blocked
17The process control block
18Context switching
19fork: creating processes
20exec: replacing a program
21wait and zombies
22Orphans and the init process
23What the scheduler decides
24First-come-first-served and shortest-job-first
25Round robin and time slices
26Priority scheduling
27Multi-level feedback queues
28The Linux CFS scheduler
29Real-time scheduling
30Measuring scheduler behavior
31Threads vs. processes
32User threads vs. kernel threads
33The thread API: pthreads
34Why threads share memory
35Thread pools
36Green threads and async runtimes

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