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Date:      Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:24:06 -0600 (CST)
From:      Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>
To:        bugs@freebsd.netcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.0 features?
Message-ID:  <200003122324.RAA13639@prism.flugsvamp.com>
In-Reply-To: <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/200003122111.PAA19501@freebsd.netcom.com>

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In article <local.mail.freebsd-hackers/200003122111.PAA19501@freebsd.netcom.com> you write:
>
>Something that the old DEC took a few stabs at was the idea of a
>"checkpoint" feature where a process or a series of processes could be
>put in a quiesced state.  This would page out the process or processes
>into the swap space, allow a hardware shutdown, and after a reboot allow
>the restart of the checkpointed process(es).

You might want to look at Condor <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor>,
which does something similar; processes are allowed to be checkpointed
and "migrated" to another machine.  Sounds similar to what you
describe above.  It's fairly useful for high-throughput computing
(making use of all/any idle CPU cycles).
--
Jonathan


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