PSTOP(1)

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version 0.2.23 · 2 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 PSTOP(1) — General Commands Manual 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the pstop page, the ✨girlies' guide to telling a process to sit DOWN and chill✨. no cap, it's short, it's iconic, it's giving "one job and she does it". let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pstop — stop processes 🛑🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pstop PID...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, here's the whole vibe: pstop stops each process by sending SIGSTOP. that's it. that's the girl. literally one sentence of lore and she ate 🔥

👑 OPERANDS 👑

  • PID — the Process ID, bestie 💅. and here's the cute part: a /proc/pid path also works?? yes ma'am 🫶 which means you can do shell expansions like /proc/* to target all processes on the system. main character energy fr fr 🌈
ngl, "all processes on the system" is a LOT of processes. just saying. 🙈

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

  • 0 on success 💖
  • non-zero if an error occurs — like no such process, permission denied, or an invalid option 😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /proc/pid/* — process information and control files 🗂️✨

💀 WARNINGS 💀

okay this is the part where we get serious, no cap 🚨

A process can do nothing while it is stopped. literally nothing. it's frozen, it's not answering, it's not moving, she is simply not participating 🙈

Stopping a heavily used process in a production environment, even for a short amount of time, can cause severe bottlenecks and even hangs of dependent processes, causing them to be unavailable to users 😭😭

Because of this, stopping a process in a production environment should be avoided. periodt. 💅

bestie if you're about to pstop something in prod, put the keyboard DOWN and go touch some grass first 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

prun(1), kill(1), proc(5)

and that's the whole page, you're literally a pstop expert now 💖✨

this has been pstop version 0.2.23, from September 2026 🫶 stay stoppin', stay slayin', mwah 🎀💅

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