Activity monitor functionality, suspending tasks

Obviously, any process can be killed using Activity Monitor by pressing the big red icon in the upper left... but what about suspending a process? On the command line, it's CTRL-Z. I really wish there was a "pause" button in Activity Monitor. Am I missing something?
chris

You're not missing anything. It's just not possible to do that with Activity Monitor.
Feel free to submit a feature request to Apple.
Hope this helps...

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