Process Management in Distributed Systems

The process management in the Distibuted System takes place through various collaborative mechanism among the processes residing in the system and it takes place with a set of steps. We’ll first have a basic overview of it and then go in its details.

Process management is a core mechanism used in the distributed system to gain control of all the processes and the task that they’re associated with, the resources they’ve occupied, and how they’re communicating through various IPC mechanisms. All of this is a part of process management, managing the lifecycle of the executing processes. There are basic functionalities that are a core part of this procedure let’s have a look over them separately.

A distributed System is a collection of autonomous nodes (computers, servers, and other networking devices) that work together in coordination and serve a single purpose. These nodes will have a single goal to maintain consistency among them, perform certain operations on the data, communicate, share resources, and keep the distributed system functioning properly.

In a system such as this, process management becomes a crucial part of maintaining & monitoring the overall system. These nodes are geographically distributed across the world and are interconnected through a network.