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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: lokum spand <lokumsspand@hotmail.com>
Cc: mike@concannon.net, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:49:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e590510021149l63cb27b9sb231925cdda3bfce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY105-F2270EEA37B83483AE53063A48E0@phx.gbl>

On 10/1/05, lokum spand <lokumsspand@hotmail.com> 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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-02 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-01 21:30 lokum spand
2005-10-01 21:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-01 22:21   ` Michael Concannon
2005-10-01 22:51     ` lokum spand
2005-10-01 23:09       ` Michael Concannon
2005-10-02  8:30       ` Tomasz Torcz
2005-10-02 13:31       ` Benoit Boissinot
2005-10-02 18:49       ` Jon Masters [this message]
2005-10-02 19:21       ` Lexington Luthor
2005-10-02  0:34   ` grundig
2005-10-02  4:53 ` Bernard Blackham
2005-10-02 12:57   ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-10-02 14:16     ` Bernard Blackham
2005-10-10  1:13       ` serue
2005-11-06 15:42         ` Bernard Blackham
2005-11-09  2:15           ` Peter Chubb
2005-10-02  5:36 ` Andrew Haninger
2005-10-03 17:41   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-10-03 18:52     ` Andrew Haninger
2005-10-03 18:59       ` Adrian Bunk
2005-10-03 19:48         ` Andrew Haninger
2005-10-02 18:46 ` Jon Masters
     [not found] <4SXfo-7hM-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-02  3:19 ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found] ` <4T47e-5E-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <4TbLq-2VG-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <4TcR9-4sS-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-10-02 17:08       ` Bodo Eggert
2005-10-02 17:51         ` Bernard Blackham
2005-10-02 19:13           ` Jeff Dike
2005-10-03 20:02           ` Pavel Machek

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