Pausing, resuming, and terminating processes

To pause and resume long-running processes (such as p4 verify or p4 pull), a Helix Server superuser can use the commands p4 monitor pause and p4 monitor resume. If a process on a Helix Core Server machine consumes excessive resources, it can also be marked for termination with p4 monitor terminate.

Once marked for termination, the process is terminated by the Helix Server within 50,000 scan rows or lines of output. Only processes that have been running for at least ten seconds can be marked for termination.

Users of terminated processes are notified with the following message:

Command has been canceled, terminating request

Processes that involve the use of interactive forms (such as p4 job or p4 user) can also be marked for termination, but data entered by the user into the form is preserved. Some commands, such as p4 obliterate, cannot be terminated.