From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:22:13 -0400 Received: from sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com ([171.71.163.11]:10402 "EHLO sj-msg-core-1.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:22:01 -0400 Message-ID: <030501c129bd$f6705800$103147ab@cisco.com> From: "Hua Zhong" To: "Taylan Akdogan" , In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Suspending a process into disk? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:20:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" To: 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/