checkpoint/restart

Emiel Kollof coolvibe at hackerheaven.org
Wed Apr 21 07:10:57 PDT 2004


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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 15:45, Dave Leimbach wrote:
> I'm actually doing some checkpoint restart research in my day job and
> a coworker pointed me to some linux kernel module stuff that he was
> planning to use.
>
> I think we could potentially use the BSD stuff in our research as well
> [This particular stuff is supposed to use the LAM MPI implementation so I
> don't know how much DragonFly stuff I can use yet].
>
> Problem is I loaded the checkpoint module and I tried using ctrl-e and
> ctrl-E to checkpoint a process but I never get any kind of checkpoint file
> written out anywhere.
>
> Does this stuff work in more recent DragonFly kernels or am I missing
> something?

Yeah, enable checkpointing by enabling the sysctl that enables it since it 
defaults to off. This because it's a security risk.

Hope that helps,

Cheers,
Emiel
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