1. What are the major activities of an Operating System with regards to Process Management?

The operating system is responsible for the following activities in connection with process management.

• Process creation and deletion.
• Process suspension (process is in I/O wait queue, or “swapped” out to disk, …) and resumption (move to ready queue or execution) – manage the state of the process.

• Provision of mechanisms for:
• Process synchronization - concurrent processing is supported thus the need for synchronization of processes or threads.
• Process communication
• Deadlock handling