Re: PROCESS IMIGRATION

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:47:44 -0200


Em Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:04:46PM -0200, Breno escreveu:
> I saw something about one project of FreeBSD and this is about imigration of
> processes between two machines.
> The kernel Linux has something about this , or some project like that ?

Right next door (oops, city):

http://www.cos.ufrj.br/~edpin/epckpt/

What is EPCKPT?

EPCKPT is a checkpoint/restart utility built into the Linux kernel.
Checkpointing is the ability to save an image of the state of a
process (or group of processes) at a certain point during its
lifetime. Checkpoints are important to a wide range of applications.
The most common uses for checkpointing are:
* Fault-tolerance
* Applications trace/Debugging
* Rollback/Animated playback
* Process migration

Our main interest right now is process migration. So, we optimized
EPCKPT to make process' image the smaller possible, so migration costs
would be low.

- Arnaldo
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