Processes and Process Management

Question 1

Process:

Answer 1

an active entity of an app that encapsulates entire state of a running app: code, data, heap and stack

Question 2

when an app is ran multiple times:

Answer 2

multiple processes are created

Question 3

address space:

Answer 3

encapsulates all of the process state

Question 4

Process control block

Answer 4

a data structure that OS maintains for every process it manages
it is created and initialized when process is started