A tool to pause Indigo

[CTZn]

Process Explorer for Windows v10.21 will allow you to pause any process, including Indigo, so they use 0% of the cpu ressources. A real pause. Then of course, you can resume their activity

Tip: Minimize application before pausing cause it won't if it has no access to cpu cycles. Right-click a process to access pause/resume functions.

PsSuspend will do the same on a command-line basis:

PsSuspend lets you suspend processes on the local or a remote system, which is desirable in cases where a process is consuming a resource (e.g. network, CPU or disk) that you want to allow different processes to use. Rather than kill the process that's consuming the resource, suspending permits you to let it continue operation at some later point in time.

Cheers !

[qinjuehang]

Thats so cool! I always wanted to pause Indigo, like I can pause it when I feel like using the computer without lag or forgot to save a file (belnder lags like **** when indigo's running)

[8bstudio]

Very good is also Dtaskmanager http://dimio.altervista.org/ita/

[DaveC]

That is very good although I have found just setting indigo to low priority with the task manager makes it seem almost as if Indigo is paused, and Indigo actually keeps going! I've had 3 instances of Indigo going, all on low priority, and my PC kept going at pretty much full speed!

The REAL problem is not being able to stop a render half way through, i.e, quit Indigo, and come back and resume it. Imagine being able to continue a render you considered finished 3 months ago! Or being able to download your PC's updates without fear of losing that 10 hour render you've been doing. Hmmm?

[CTZn]

Yeah sure, that's not the same thing, what you are describing is something we ALL want !

And if you are a fragger, you know that makes a difference if you force Indigo @ 0% CPU

In some cases I would just set a lower priority (ie when modelling or rendering another more important scene), on some others I would just pause Indigo for true (ie when you gotta be the best on the server ). That's just a bit different.

[deltaepsylon]

interesting...and usefull