money measurement concept. The accounting idea that every event or transaction recorded in a company's accounts is assessed in monetary terms.
At the kernel level, a process contains one or more kernel threads, which share the process's resources, such as memory and file handles â a process is a unit of resources, while a thread is a unit of scheduling and execution. Kernel scheduling is typically uniformly done preemptively or, less commonly, cooperatively.
4.1 Overview. 1  A thread is a basic unit of CPU utilization, consisting of a program counter, a stack, and a set of registers, ( and a thread ID. 2  Traditional ( heavyweight ) processes have a single thread of control - There is one program counter, and one sequence of instructions that can be carried out at any given time.