Kernel Process Tables
The process is truly the king of the HP-UX operating system, the primary entity managed by the kernel. In general, the prime directive for the HP-UX kernel is to level the playing field and make sure every process thread gets a chance to run.
The Process Table
Threads are the schedulable entity, but it is the venerable process that owns resources (at least as long as it is active). As such, the process table (see Figure 3-12) is the starting point for all process and thread management-related activities in the kernel. HP-UX 11.i features a dynamic process table. Entries are created as needed by allocating memory from a kernel memory arena and adding it to the linked list of active processes. The beginning of the process ...
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