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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:38 pm, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way that I can run a long job (from a shell, not
> GUI but takes days) so I can reboot the machine without losing the work
> done so far.

None that I know of.
>
> The only way I can think of is to use vmware and sleep it over the
> reboot, but I would prefer something that does not have any overhead:
> this takes long enough as is!
>

You can run a long process on the host vmware and there is no need to sleep 
it. Being on the host os will save you some overheard. 

Also renice ing a process is a good way to keep its impact to whats going on 
minimal.

> BillK

If you tell us the problem there may be another solution

Daniel
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