Characteristics of suspend process, Operating System

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Characteristics of suspend process

Suspended process isn't immediately available for execution.
The process may or may not be waiting on an event.
For preventing the execution, process is suspend by OS, parent process, process itself and an agent.
Process can't be removed from the suspended state till the agent orders the removal.
Swapping is used to move all of a process from main memory to disk. When all the process by putting it in suspended state and transferring it to disk.

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