JSI Tip 4076. PsSuspend freeware lets you suspend processes on a local or remote system.

Jerold Schulman

September 9, 2001

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"PsSuspend lets you suspend processes on the local or a remote system, which is desirablein cases where a process is consuming a resource (e.g. network, CPU or disk) thatyou want to allow different processes to use. Rather than kill the process that'sconsuming the resource, suspending permits you to let it continue operation at somelater point in time.

Installation

Copy PsSuspend onto your executable path and type "pssuspend" with command-line optionsdefined below.

PsSuspend works on NT 4.0, and Win2K.

Usage

Running PsSuspend with a process ID directs it to suspend or resyme the process of that IDon the local computer. If you specify a process name PsSuspend will suspend or resume all processes that have that name. Specify the -r switch to resume suspended processes.usage: pssuspend [-?] [-r] [\computer [-u username] [-p password]]


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