Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751139AbVJBStd (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:49:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751141AbVJBStd (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:49:33 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]:53162 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751139AbVJBStc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:49:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=umJ5o1tqJv2ywsXuPt2Qza3YpupawZpnKkKbNTiiZNP08REVvlkQYpNkqpml97OsuO+hoEHuoZaNAnsfw8EjinAjIfsOPZAWKwcYI9lv7vMsAB2OHxsUjtOOMUeMxPgtId4BeKJwGNavvNrp/4EkooNJCF5bAQ5HOV/lXWFdT54= Message-ID: <35fb2e590510021149l63cb27b9sb231925cdda3bfce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:49:31 +0100 From: Jon Masters Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org To: lokum spand Subject: Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk Cc: mike@concannon.net, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <433F0BF1.2020900@concannon.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 993 Lines: 25 On 10/1/05, lokum spand 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/