Question

1. Of what does a process consist?
2. Why is it important that an operating system support the suspended state?

Answer 1

1)

A process is made up of stack, heap, text and data.

2)

Process that was initially in the ready state but were swapped out of main memory and placed onto external storage by scheduler are said to be in suspend ready state. The process will transition back to ready state whenever the process is again brought onto the main memory. If a process is not suspended, then that idle process will continue to occupy main memory space and if a lot of processes are suspended, then the OS might run out of memory.