--- title: "unpause" description: "The unpause command description and usage" keywords: "cgroups, suspend, container" --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # unpause ```markdown Usage: docker unpause CONTAINER [CONTAINER...] Unpause all processes within one or more containers Options: --help Print usage ``` The `docker unpause` command un-suspends all processes in a container. On Linux, it does this using the cgroups freezer. See the [cgroups freezer documentation](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.txt) for further details.