On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:16 PM Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > There are some programs that I would much rather keep open, versus > shutting down and restarting all over again. But keeping them all open > uses resources, especially on a 10-year-old CORE2 with 3 gigabytes of > RAM (The thing refuses to die). Is there a way to forcibly swap out or > freeze a specific PID, until I need to get back to it again? >
kill -s SIGSTOP <list of PIDs> to resume: kill -s SIGCONT <list of PIDs> man kill man 7 signal YMMV on what processes will actually work properly after a SIGCONT. If anything a process does is not re-entrant, then you could have very unpredictable things happen including corruption of data. Andrew
