Comments on: How-to Pause a Linux Process

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:06:32 +0000

thanks yar its working

By: Keilaron

Keilaron — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:02:55 +0000

Another way to get the pid of xeyes without using killall or a “contains”-type search is to use pidof, e.g.:
kill `pidof xeyes`
You can use -s to force only one pid to be returned, e.g.:
kill `pidof -s xeyes`

By: tom

tom — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:53:40 +0000

haha searched for this and noticed that it DIDN’T work for the process I wanted to pause: cp (copy)

there will be more processes you can’t pause I think

By: Jadd

Jadd — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:48:41 +0000

What about these more useful commands:
killall -s STOP xeyes
killall -s CONT xeyes

By: VeRTiTO

VeRTiTO — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:11:55 +0000

i love this post! appreciate being mentioned, keep up the linux chills!

By: ivant

ivant — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:40:32 +0000

Here are some other useful commands, which can help in such tasks:

killall -STOP xeyes
will stop all processes named xeyes

pgrep -l eye
finds the PIDS of all processes, which contain ‘eye’
pkill -STOP eye
stops all the processes, containing ‘eye’

Actually, pgrep and pkill work with regular expressions.

top and htop – text based “gui” process monitors, which can sort processes based on memory consumption, cpu usage, etc. They can also send signals. I especially recommend htop. It’s very, very good!

Cheers,
Ivan

By: ney frota

ney frota — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:07:44 +0000

for the gui people (like my mother

- hit alt-f2 to pop-up run dialog
- type xeyes and hit enter
- go to: system -> administration -> system monitor
- on system monitor go to: process tab -> search for xeyes in the list
- right click xeyes and choose stop to pause the process
- right click xeyes and choose continue to release the process
- right click xeyes and choose kill to kill xeyes

terminal comands are veeeery usefull… because.. if you get a program stuck the system, the full gui gets tooooo sloooowww… so, you can hit control-alt-f1 to get a prompt, login, check process (top command can help you), kill/stop/whatever its eating you process power and hit control-alt-f7 to get back to gui