How to Suspend and Restart Resources

Why suspend my resources in DataLabs?

When not in active use, notebooks, sites and clusters use a minimal amount of resources. Suspending them frees up this resource to be used by others.

What does suspending a resource do?

Suspending a resource temporarily shuts it down. No existing data or configuration is lost. This takes a few minutes and will terminate the session of anyone using the resources. Once suspended, the resource can be turned back on when required.

Why are Notebooks automatically suspended?

Often people forget about resources they were previously working on. In order to prevent these resources draining capacity, a basic timeout policy is enforced which will automatically suspend notebooks. This comes into effect only if it has not been accessed (by a user opening the resource through DataLabs) for some time.

NOTE: This does not affect sites, which often sit idle for long periods of time for good reason.

How will I know if a Notebook is about to be automatically suspended?

If a notebook has not been accessed in some time, a warning will be shown next to the notebook in question.

Can I manually suspend resources myself?

This is possible via the ellipsis button on the respective resources. The following can be manually suspended and restarted:

• Notebooks
• Sites
• Compute Clusters

Once suspended, a resource can be restarted by any user with access to view it in a similar fashion.

I need a Notebook to remain running

Please get in touch with us via e-mail or Slack if you need your resource to continue running irrespective of access times.