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Date:      Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:29:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@comcast.net>
To:        dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU
Cc:        nimrod-me@bezeqint.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Stability
Message-ID:  <200301042029.h04KTkVQ077682@pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030103220845.GA12586@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On  3 Jan, David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Nimrod Mesika <nimrod-me@bezeqint.net>:
>> Think about compute servers. Our CAD servers can run simulations and
>> other types of processes for ~40 hours. You definitely don't want to
>> interrupt a running system and it finding some idle time for service
>> gets really difficult.
> 
> What you want is to be able to take a core image of a process and
> restart it later.  I forget the names of the programs that allow
> you to do this.  Perhaps someone else can say what you need to
> google for.

This would be "checkpointing".
-- 
Stephen J. Roznowski    (sjr@comcast.net)

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