Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk

[Jon Masters]

On 10/1/05, lokum spand <lokumsspand@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In fact moving processes from one machine to another would be a brilliant
> feature at my work, since we run fairly large and time-consuming simulations
> on electronic circuits. If the kernel could natively support bouncing jobs
> back and forth, that would really be something. Since we simulate with
> proprietary software, I suppose we can't rely on the simulator being
> rewritten to support such special libraries.

But it does that. Projects like OpenMOSIX can abuse the already
existing migration code in the scheduler, Xen supports moving whole
virtual machines on the fly. There are others too.

> Does any other Unix variant have process bouncing already?

Lots.

Cheers!

Jon.
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