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Docker – Pause processes in docker container

We will help you to understand how to pause processes in docker container. For this, we use “docker pause” command.

docker pause” command pause processes within one or more docker container.

Command:

docker pause container_name_1 container_name_2 …

How docker pause command works ?

  • docker pause command suspends all the processes of containers.
  • SIGSTOP signal is used to suspend the process inside container.
  • Once all the processes go to suspend state, you can’t go to inside container by exec command.
  • After doing unpause the container, All the processes get resumed and there is no change in process ID.

Example:

% docker pause ubuntu

% docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES

9b815c2b0d3c

ubuntu:latest

“bash”

22 hours ago

Up 22 hours (Paused)

ubuntu

Now, we will check the processes of container.

% docker top ubuntu
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 2818 2792 0 Aug12 ? 00:00:00 bash
root 3323 2859 0 03:26 ? 00:00:00 python3 -m http.server
root 3422 2792 0 14:57 ? 00:00:00 bash
root 4353 2792 0 18:05 ? 00:00:00 bash

 

Read about unpause the process of container

To learn more about docker, Please refer given below link:

https://www.techieindoor.com/

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)

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