How to pause and resume programs in OS X

How to pause and resume programs in OS X
If these commands give you an error that no matching processes were found, you may need to look up the exact name of the program you are trying to target, as its process name may be different than that of the program package. You can look this up by opening the Activity Monitor program and sorting the list by "Process Name." Additionally, with any process name that has a space in it, be sure you have surrounded the full name with quotes.This feature does have its uses for troubleshooting problems with the system, but keep in mind that this does force the program into a non-standard mode, and may result in some problems such as interrupted network communications for downloads and chat sessions.Additionally, when the program is paused it will not send any acknowledgement messages to the system, and therefore will appear to be in a hanged state. As such, you will likely see the spinning color wheel cursor when you hover your mouse over the program. However, keep in mind this will only affect the program and not the window server, so you should still be able to drag the program around on-screen (though you will not be able to resize or minimize the window).Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or e-mail us!Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums.