This document discusses processes and threads in computing. It contains the following key points: 1. A process consists of an execution environment and one or more threads. A process is the unit of resource management and threads are schedulable activities attached to processes. 2. Using multiple threads within a server can improve performance by allowing concurrent processing of multiple client requests. For example, one thread could process a request while another waits for a disk access to complete. 3. Threads are lighter weight than processes and are cheaper to create and destroy. However, processes provide more isolation than threads which share the same memory space.