Problem Set 2 - Exploration 1

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Exploration 1. Use top and ps or other tools to examine how the resources are being used on your computer. Try running some programs like a web browser, playing a video, and running a large system build (for example, you try building Rust from source code from https://github.com/mozilla/rust.git)). While you do, watch which processes are getting to run and which are sleeping.

Is your operating system doing a good job allocating resources? Describe something interesting you observed or learned below.

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