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SubjectRe: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible?
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I'm not on this list, but reference.com turned up my name and pointed
me at the thread about process migration.

I must take exception to Larry's comment that migration is a bad idea
but remote execution is great. I agree that remote execution
(parallel make etc.) is wonderul. But just because migration is
difficult doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. I had a full-functioned
implementation of transparent process migration in Sprite almost 10
years ago. It made the system useable for a wider range of
applications than you can get with something like Condor -- which,
contrary to some other messages in this thread, is not a process
migration facility, it's a remote excution facility with
checkpointing. Much of the extra work you need to go to in order to
get that level of transparency is exactly what you need to support
full migration rather than just remote execution.

By the way, the reference to my own thesis was about Zayas's work on
copy-on-reference, if I understand correctly -- anyone wanting more
info should check out SOSP-11 (1987).

Fred Douglis <http://www.research.att.com/~douglis/>
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