% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
 % Docker Community
 % JUNE 2014
 # NAME
 docker-pause - Pause all processes within a container
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 **docker pause**

 CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

 # DESCRIPTION
 
 The `docker pause` command uses the cgroups freezer to suspend all processes in
 a container.  Traditionally when suspending a process the `SIGSTOP` signal is
 used, which is observable by the process being suspended. With the cgroups freezer
 the process is unaware, and unable to capture, that it is being suspended,
 and subsequently resumed.
 
 See the [cgroups freezer documentation]
 (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt) for
 further details.
 

 # OPTIONS
 There are no available options.
 

 # See also
 **docker-unpause(1)** to unpause all processes within a container.
 

 # HISTORY
 June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>