Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hua Zhong" <> | Subject | Re: Suspending a process into disk? | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:20:39 -0700 |
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Please check http://www.checkpointing.org. There are several projects listed there.
Current general kernel level checkpointing support is still limited (i.e., doesn't support all applications in all cases). Two projects you may want to check: epckpt (a kernel patch) and CRAK (a kernel module).
-Hua
----- Original Message ----- From: "Taylan Akdogan" <akdogan@mit.edu> To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:04 PM Subject: Suspending a process into disk?
> Hello All, > > I was wondering, if suspending a specific process into disk and > resuming from the disk after a reboot is possible. Let's assume > that the process in question has a couple of open files for r/w, > say on ext2, if it makes difference, and it isn't using any > network connection. > > It could be very useful, if you have to reboot the system while > your cpu-monster application is running for a long time... > Sometimes, I have to delay a necessary (minor) kernel update > because of week-long processes. > > Regards, > Taylan > > ---=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--- > Taylan Akdogan Massachusetts Institute of Technology > akdogan@mit.edu Department of Physics > ---=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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