Explore tens of thousands of sets crafted by our community.
Process States
10
Flashcards
0/10
New
The state where a process has just been created but has not yet been admitted to the pool of executable processes by the operating system.
Ready
This process state indicates that the process has all the necessary resources to run but must wait for CPU time.
Running
In this state, the process is currently being executed by the CPU.
Blocked (Waiting)
A process state where the process cannot proceed until some external event, such as an I/O completion, occurs.
Suspended Ready
A process that is in secondary storage and is ready-to-run state but cannot execute until it is moved to main memory.
Suspended Blocked
A process that is blocked and resides in secondary storage rather than in main memory.
Terminated
The state of a process that has finished its execution or has been explicitly killed.
Zombie
A process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table, usually to report its exit status to its parent process.
Ready Suspended
Similar to Suspended Ready, it's another term for a ready-to-run process that is in secondary storage, waiting to be brought into main memory.
Preempted
This is when a process in the running state is interrupted to give way to a higher priority process, moving it back to ready state.
© Hypatia.Tech. 2024 All rights reserved.