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Process Management in Operating System

A process is the execution of a program, managed by the operating system through tasks like creation, scheduling, and termination. The Process Control Block (PCB) is a crucial data structure that stores all necessary information about a process, including its state and resource allocation. There are seven main states a process can be in, including new, ready, waiting, executing, blocked, suspended, and terminated.

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Process Management in Operating System

A process is the execution of a program, managed by the operating system through tasks like creation, scheduling, and termination. The Process Control Block (PCB) is a crucial data structure that stores all necessary information about a process, including its state and resource allocation. There are seven main states a process can be in, including new, ready, waiting, executing, blocked, suspended, and terminated.

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Process Management in Operating System:

What is a Process?
Process is the execution of a program that performs the actions specified in that
program. It can be defined as an execution unit where a program runs. The OS helps
you to create, schedule, and terminates the processes which is used by CPU. A process
created by the main process is called a child process.

Process operations can be easily controlled with the help of PCB(Process Control
Block). You can consider it as the brain of the process, which contains all the crucial
information related to processing like process id, priority, state, CPU registers, etc.

What is Process Management?


Process management involves various tasks like creation, scheduling, termination of
processes, and a dead lock. Process is a program that is under execution, which is an
important part of modern-day operating systems. The OS must allocate resources that
enable processes to share and exchange information. It also protects the resources of
each process from other methods and allows synchronization among processes.

It is the job of OS to manage all the running processes of the system. It handles
operations by performing tasks like process scheduling and such as resource allocation.

Process Architecture

Process architecture Image


Here, is an Architecture diagram of the Process

 Stack: The Stack stores temporary data like function parameters, returns
addresses, and local variables.
 Heap Allocates memory, which may be processed during its run time.
 Data: It contains the variable.
 Text:
Text Section includes the current activity, which is represented by the value of the
Program Counter.

Process Control Blocks


PCB stands for Process Control Block. It is a data structure that is maintained by the
Operating System for every process. The PCB should be identified by an integer
Process ID (PID). It helps you to store all the information required to keep track of all the
running processes.

It is also accountable for storing the contents of processor registers. These are saved
when the process moves from the running state and then returns back to it. The
information is quickly updated in the PCB by the OS as soon as the process makes the
state transition.

Process States

Pr
ocess States Diagram
A process state is a condition of the process at a specific instant of time. It also defines
the current position of the process.
There are mainly seven stages of a process which are:

 New: The new process is created when a specific program calls from secondary
memory/ hard disk to primary memory/ RAM a
 Ready: In a ready state, the process should be loaded into the primary memory,
which is ready for execution.
 Waiting: The process is waiting for the allocation of CPU time and other
resources for execution.
 Executing: The process is an execution state.
 Blocked: It is a time interval when a process is waiting for an event like I/O
operations to complete.
 Suspended: Suspended state defines the time when a process is ready for
execution but has not been placed in the ready queue by OS.
 Terminated: Terminated state specifies the time when a process is terminated

After completing every step, all the resources are used by a process, and memory
becomes free.

Process Control Block(PCB)


Every process is represented in the operating system by a process control block, which
is also called a task control block.

Here, are important components of PCB


Process
Control Block(PCB)

 Process state: A process can be new, ready, running, waiting, etc.


 Program counter: The program counter lets you know the address of the next
instruction, which should be executed for that process.
 CPU registers: This component includes accumulators, index and general-
purpose registers, and information of condition code.
 CPU scheduling information: This component includes a process priority,
pointers for scheduling queues, and various other scheduling parameters.
 Accounting and business information: It includes the amount of CPU and time
utilities like real time used, job or process numbers, etc.
 Memory-management information: This information includes the value of the
base and limit registers, the page, or segment tables. This depends on the
memory system, which is used by the operating system.
 I/O status information: This block includes a list of open files, the list of I/O
devices that are allocated to the process, etc.

Summary:
 A process is defined as the execution of a program that performs the actions
specified in that program.
 Process management involves various tasks like creation, scheduling,
termination of processes, and a dead lock.
 The important elements of Process architecture are 1)Stack 2) Heap 3) Data, and
4) Text
 The PCB is a full form of Process Control Block. It is a data structure that is
maintained by the Operating System for every process
 A process state is a condition of the process at a specific instant of time.
 Every process is represented in the operating system by a process control block,
which is also called a task control block.

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