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

2018-07-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-07-03 00:32, Walter Dnes wrote: > Actually, minimizing all the spreadsheets and remaining in the same > workspace similarly reduces cpu usage. Why would gnumeric > spreadsheets be using cpu just sitting there, visible or behind > another program? You can get that question answered by

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

2018-07-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-07-02, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: >> kill -s SIGSTOP >> kill -s SIGCONT > > 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. -- Grant Edwards