Messages in this thread | | | From | Neal Becker <> | Subject | Re: State of linux checkpointing? | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:24:55 -0400 |
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Tim Connors wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:23:00 -0400: >> Neal D. Becker wrote: >> > I wonder if there is a checkpointing that will work with 2.6 kernels? >> > >> > I only need relatively basic checkpointing. No sockets or fancy stuff. >> >> You only need checkpointing when your application programmers are lazy >> and don't care about data integrity. :) > > Or you are running some kind of cluster where you want the > applications to be checkpointed transparently without the application > knowing the details of how or when they will be swapped out (but this > will need sockets anyway, so won't happen anytime soon). >
I want checkpointing for:
1) Protect against job interruption due to system crash, operator error, power loss, whatever
2) Job mygration. Even manual job mygration would be nice.
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