From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 4 12:29:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676C037B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:29:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FC443EC5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sjr@comcast.net) Received: from pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net (pcp01207467pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net [68.48.13.246]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.07 (built Nov 25 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H87005MLI9TB7@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:29:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from istari.comcast.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h04KTkVQ077682; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:29:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:29:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability In-reply-to: <20030103220845.GA12586@HAL9000.homeunix.com> To: dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU Cc: nimrod-me@bezeqint.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200301042029.h04KTkVQ077682@pcp325887pcs.catonv01.md.comcast.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 Jan, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Nimrod Mesika : >> 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message