[gentoo-user] Re: Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-07-02, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <gen...@mva.name> wrote:
>> kill -s SIGSTOP <list of PIDs>
>> kill -s SIGCONT <list of PIDs>
>
> Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/

It should.  The pages used by the stopped process will get swapped out
if/when the RAM is needed for other purposes.

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