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Isn't that the OS job? It was my understanding that the kernel would put idle process to sleep, and even put the memory it uses from ram to disk and wake it up
by BiteCode_dev 6y ago
Isn't that the OS job?
It was my understanding that the kernel would put idle process to sleep, and even put the memory it uses from ram to disk and wake it up if there is some input to it.
- m463 6y agoI was taught in school "The job of an operating system is to share resources" so yes.
- ForHackernews 6y agoHow would the OS know that web server process is "idle" vs "ready to accept requests"?
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoNot sure, socket binding ?