[Gllug] Checkpoint/Restart

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:48:25PM +0000, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
> 
> One of our researchers needs to run a program for a long
> time (probably a week or more), so I thought it might be
> useful if we provided a checkpoint/restart facility.
> 
> I've googled and found a couple, but can't decide which
> route to take.

I used libckpt a _long_ time ago
(http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/www/libckpt.html).

Note that there are limits to what you can checkpoint.  eg.  If it has
network connections open then you can forget about being able to do
transparent checkpointing.

There is also this: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/ckpt/

Rich.

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