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# Pausing

## Pausing

The [subnet owner](/network/subnet-owner.md) can pause an active subnet for up to 4 days.

This will pause all subnet functionality on-chain, including electing validators and emissions distribution.

**If the subnet is not unpaused**, it will decrease the subnet reputation it has on each epoch that it is not unpaused until it hits the minimum allowable subnet reputation and is removed.

### Extrinsic

```rust
pub fn pause_subnet(
    origin: OriginFor<T>, 
    subnet_id: u32
)
```

## Unpausing

When unpaused, it will unpause the subnet to begin consensus on the following epoch, and push each [registered](/network/subnet-node/classifications.md#registered) subnet node in the queue back for the length of epochs the subnet was paused for.

{% hint style="info" %}
All [Idle](/network/subnet-node/classifications.md#idle) classification nodes are not pushed back.
{% endhint %}

### Extrinsic

```rust
pub fn unpause_subnet(
    origin: OriginFor<T>, 
    subnet_id: u32
)
```