What does a Status of “Suspended” and high DiskIO means from sp_who2?

Question

I\'m trying to troubleshoot some intermittent slowdowns in our application. I\'ve got a separate question here with more details.

I ran sp_who2 to and I\'ve notice

Answer 1

Suspended. The session is waiting for an event, such as I/O, to complete.

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