• A Linux Process is an individual entity that is allocated system resources by the operating system.
  • It has it’s own memory space and CPU cyles and can exist independently from other processes unless the program running the process has interelated processes.
  • A process has an id, the PID which can be displayed with top

  • Linux representation of thread is different from Windows in the sense that a thread is viewed as a lightweight process in Linux.

  • These are the types of processes running in Linux:
    • Kernel Thread - tasks started and controlled by the OS
    • Threads -