Re: State of linux checkpointing?

[Neal Becker]

Tim Connors wrote:

> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> 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.


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