OS02进程描述201420152题库.pptVIP

* * The OS controls events within the computer system. It schedules and dispatches processes for execution by the processor, allocates resources to processes, and responds to requests by user processes for basic services. Fundamentally, we can think of the OS as that entity that manages the use of system resources by processes. This concept is illustrated in Figure 3.10 . In a multiprogramming environment, there are a number of processes (P 1 ,…, P n ) that have been created and exist in virtual memory. Each process, during the course of its execution, needs access to certain system resourc