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title: "pause"
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description: "The pause command description and usage"
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keywords: ["cgroups, container, suspend, SIGSTOP"]
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---
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# pause
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```markdown
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Usage: docker pause CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]
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Pause all processes within one or more containers
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Options:
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--help Print usage
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```
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The `docker pause` command suspends all processes in a container. On Linux,
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this uses the cgroups freezer. Traditionally, when suspending a process the
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`SIGSTOP` signal is used, which is observable by the process being suspended.
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With the cgroups freezer the process is unaware, and unable to capture,
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that it is being suspended, and subsequently resumed. On Windows, only Hyper-V
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containers can be paused.
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See the
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[cgroups freezer documentation](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.txt)
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for further details.
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