Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, Third Edition (Microsoft Programming Series)

In this chapter, we've examined the structure of processes and threads, seen how they are created and destroyed, and looked at how Windows 2000 decides which threads should run and for how long.

Many references in this chapter are to topics related to memory management. Because threads run inside processes and processes in large part define an address space, the next logical topic is how Windows 2000 performs virtual and physical memory management—the subjects of Chapter 7.