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From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@verizon.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re:  State of linux checkpointing?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:24:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6plh7$sqj$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn-0.9.7.4-11992-4650-200404290913-tc@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au

Tim Connors wrote:

> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:23:00 -0400:
>> Neal D. Becker wrote:
>> > I wonder if there is a checkpointing that will work with 2.6 kernels?
>> > 
>> > I only need relatively basic checkpointing.  No sockets or fancy stuff.
>> 
>> You only need checkpointing when your application programmers are lazy
>> and don't care about data integrity.  :)
> 
> Or you are running some kind of cluster where you want the
> applications to be checkpointed transparently without the application
> knowing the details of how or when they will be swapped out (but this
> will need sockets anyway, so won't happen anytime soon).
> 

I want checkpointing for:

1) Protect against job interruption due to system crash, operator error,
power loss, whatever

2) Job mygration.  Even manual job mygration would be nice.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-29  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-28 17:15 State of linux checkpointing? Neal D. Becker
2004-04-28 20:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-28 23:17   ` Tim Connors
2004-04-29  1:24     ` Neal Becker [this message]
2004-04-29 16:31       ` Thomas Davis
2004-04-29 17:12         ` Tim Connors
2004-04-29 19:50           ` Neal D. Becker
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2004-04-29  9:42       ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2004-05-10 16:23 Nur Hussein

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