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• Chapter 3, Tuning CPU resources
  • Operating system states <--------- YOU ARE HERE
    • Viewing CPU activity
    • Process states
    • Clock ticks and time slices
    • Context switching
    • Interrupts
    • Calculation of process priorities
    • Examining the run queue
  • Multiprocessor systems
  • Process scheduling
  • Identifying CPU-bound systems
  • Tuning CPU-bound systems