Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:33:03 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Core dumps & restarting |
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Bradley M Keryan wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > I remember a program for the Amiga that would swap a process entirely into > a file on disk so that you could continue it later (even after a reboot) > but it had a lot of trouble with memory fragmentation. I think the only > times you could restore a process were after a fresh reboot (if you were > lucky) or right after you swapped it to disk, so it was not very useful. > hmm, not very useful then :(
> > > > > (Of course, real Linux users never reboot or shut down, except for a > > > hardware or kernel upgrade ;) > > > > > Don't forget power failure, and electrical storms ;) > > Bryn > One word: UPS. > Several more: not enough money, I want a backup device first, and I'd want to unplug in an electrical storm anyway.
> > Brad Keryan
Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( and I don't care ;) | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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