Is it possible to suspend and later resume a process?

[Jack C. Mahaffey]

I got a backup job that hogs the network. I'd like to periodically suspend the process and then resume it. Is there a way on 11.0 to suspend and resume a process?

Thanks... jack...

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Jack,

Absolutely - use kill as follows:

kill -25 PID #25 = SIGSTP

then use this to continue

kill -26 PID #26 = SIGCONT

HTH,
Jeff

[Eric Antunes]

I don't now a way of doing this after executing the comand, but I now a way before: use nice (man nice for more info.)

[Jack C. Mahaffey]

Thanks Jeff... Just what I was looking for...
:)

[Muthukumar_5]

hai,

You can easily do in shell with kill. We can do it with c coding with pause() call and raise() or kill() call.

It will be suspended upto getting the signal.We can execute the backup from c coding with system() command :)

Regards,
Muthukumar.