[Queue-developers] Re: epckpt checkpointing on late 2.2 or 2.3/4 kernels?

[W. G. K. <wer...@ya...>]

GNU Queue using the checkpoint kernel patch for alpha support of process
migration (balancing loads by actually moving running jobs around the
cluster.)

It's possible one of our users might have ported it to a late-model
kernel.

Anyone?

Grant Taylor wrote:

> Hi there.  I'm looking for anyone who has ported epckpt forward to
> late-model 2.2 and/or 2.4 kernels.  Eduardo's Rutgers page appears to
> be the current location for this, but the latest kernel supported
> there is 2.2.1, and it seems that someone out there must have moved it
> forward.
>
> I've looked and looked, and the only live project I can find using
> epckpt is GNU Queue.  The PANTS folks stopped using it and plan to
> move to BPROC's vmadump, and Adam Freuer seems to have moved somewhere
> else; I can find no trace of his project, whatever it was.
>
> Is anyone out there actually still using epckpt?  It seems to be the
> most functional of the checkpointing facilities around, so it'd be a
> shame for it to die...
>
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