How to resume a "paused" application after an out of memory situation?

Not in front of my mac right now, but basic steps would be:

  1. Open the Terminal application: just type Terminal into Spotlight
  2. List the running processes : ps -ax
  3. Find the process you want to unpause. You need its PID *Process Id
  4. To unpause, strangely enough you use the "Kill" command on the process with the CONT flag: kill -CONT [app_pid] dont forget the -CONT as otherwise you will kill it instead of unpausing. In your example that'd bekill -Cont 69971

You can get the pid from the Activity Monitor if you have that column showing