Process - Resource

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Resource in a process context are part of the execution environment.

Resources are limited components required by a process to produce work.

A resource is thing that can be consumed on a limited fashion. A resources can be:

• logical (or higher-level) - number of open connection or file
• or physical (or low-level) - memory, cpu, …

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Management

Monitoring

See What is a Resource (Metrics) ?

Type

Resources may be:

• physical (or low-level)
• logical (or higher-level)

Physical

All physical server are material’s resources (CPUs, disks, busses, memory, network interfaces). They are called generally system metrics. See (Operating) System Metrics

Device resources from the Windows device manager:

Logical

Applicative:

• a database
• or a microservice
• Open File
• Open connection
• …

List

• Streams
• Channels
• memory
• socket
• pipe
• file (open file)
• directory
• Registry key