Messages in this thread |  | | From | lists-nicholas@binary9 ... | Subject | Re: Core dumps & restarting | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:28:18 -0500 (EST) |
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# # > What about the system save-state that SCO uses to recover from UPS initiated # > shutdown? They write out the machine state into the swap partition. # > When you restart your system, it picks up right where it left off. Nice. # > # > I have run an application which used over 300Mb virtual memory - wonder # > what the SCO box would have done with that beast <distributed simulation>. # # The big problem with freezing processes or machine state and restoring # it later is that the context gets partially lost like non-local network
The really big problem is saving and restoring the state of hardware.
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