Is it possible to interrupt a process and checkpoint it to resume it later on?

Question

Lets say, you have an application, which is consuming up all the computational power. Now you want to do some other necessary work. Is there any way on Linux, to interrupt t

Answer 1

From the man pages man kill

Interrupting a process requires two steps:

To stop

kill -STOP   

and

To continue

kill -CONT 

Where is the process-id.