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Process Management

  • Process is a program that has its own address space.
  • Every process has its PID
  • In RHEL , systemd has PID 1.
  • Every process has a parent process, except root process.
  • Orphan Process à When parent process is killed but child processes are still running
  • Zombies à When child processes are killed but parent process is waiting for child processes to be executed