Quiesce (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Quiesce is used to describe pausing or altering the state of running processes on a computer, particularly those that might modify information stored on disk during a backup, in order to guarantee a consistent and usable backup. This generally requires flushing any outstanding writes, see buffering.IBM DB2 supports a Quiesce command that is used to indicate a state for which all users have been locked out of a database or an instance (of databases) so that administrative tasks can be performed. See DB2 Quiesce Command.