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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2026.1

# Pause, resume, and terminate processes

To pause and resume long-running processes (such as `p4 verify` or `p4 pull`), a P4 Server superuser can use the commands `p4 monitor pause` and `p4 monitor resume`. If a process on a P4 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 P4 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.

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