lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1996]   [Oct]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Core dumps & restarting
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 ;-)
\____________________________________


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:38    [W:0.740 / U:0.044 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site