PROCESSES and threads have one goal: Getting a computer to do more than one thing at a time. To do that, the processor (or processors) must switch smoothly among several tasks, which requires ...

You are probably accustomed to the idea that your smartphone can run more than one app at a time. Even if you are only used to seeing just one app in the foreground, you will have noticed that some ...

As with many Unix and Linux systems, you can change the priority of processes in OS X to advance them through the CPU. While this will not make them faster, it can be used to make processes more ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

Since the early 2000s, the CPU industry has shifted from raw clock speed to core counts. Pat Gelsinger famously took the stage in 2002 and gave the talk the industry needed, stating processors needed ...