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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12668 comp.unix.wizards:30879 comp.sys.sun.apps:4863 comp.sys.sun.misc:9673 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!tmb From: tmb@arolla.idiap.ch (Thomas M. Breuel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc Subject: checkpointing software for UNIX or SunOS Date: 22 Sep 1993 23:24:41 GMT Organization: IDIAP (Institut Dalle Molle d'Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive) Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <TMB.93Sep23012442@arolla.idiap.ch> Reply-To: tmb@idiap.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: arolla.idiap.ch I am looking for software for checkpointing running processes for a BSD-style UNIX (more specifically, SunOS). Do people know of anything that exists? Is it freely available? Thanks, Thomas. PS: Checkpointing software periodically saves the state of a running process (including file descriptors) to disk so that the work performed by long-running processes is not lost when the job gets killed or the system crashes before completion.