% 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 suspends all processes in a container. On Linux,
 this uses the cgroups freezer. 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. On Windows, only Hyper-V
 containers can be paused.

 
 See the [cgroups freezer documentation]

 (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/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>