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Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
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[REQUEST] Pause the Program #381

Closed RyannDaGreat closed 2 years ago

RyannDaGreat commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I tried to kill a process, in this case Vivaldi, but instead I killed my Python ML training process. There was a network spike, and by the time my keystroke was sent over it turned out the process taking most CPU at the moment was no longer Vivaldi, but instead Python.

In addition, sometimes processes open and close quickly and it's would be nice to go in and analyze them by freezing time.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like the ability to pause the program, so that I can safely select and kill processes without worrying about lag spikes, or missing because I'm too slow. I'd like to press shift+P to pause the movement of all graphs and process CPU updates etc, so I can freeze time and go and kill any processes. We could press shift+P again to toggle time back on again.

Describe alternatives you've considered Technically, I could go into the settings and slow everything down. But this solution isn't ideal, because after I kill the process I want to see the graph moving again.

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UmarJ commented 2 years ago

You can press Enter to select a process and then Terminate/Kill/Interrupt it.

RyannDaGreat commented 2 years ago

@UmarJ Thank you, that totally works for my use case!