Signals, really cool!
In short, its the notification sent to a process to notify it of the various events. We are familiar with signal SIGKILL (9) and it is used to terminate a process, especially when the server load becomes abnormal. There are situations where we cannot simply kill the processes away, for example, when a critical backup process overloads the server.
The kill command has signals to suspend/unsuspend a process temporarily without killing it. Here we go ...
kill -SIGSTOP 17065 ; To suspend it temporarily
kill -SIGCONT 17065 ; To unsuspend ...
If you want to see the other signals available, try kill -l
Try it out, when you get a chance
http://kb.bobcares.com/
The kill command has signals to suspend/unsuspend a process temporarily without killing it. Here we go ...
kill -SIGSTOP 17065 ; To suspend it temporarily
kill -SIGCONT 17065 ; To unsuspend ...
If you want to see the other signals available, try kill -l
Try it out, when you get a chance
http://kb.bobcares.com/
