one day into a background job scheduled to take 2.5 days, I hung a few processes and had to reboot, so losing everything.
This particular job is not all that important as I am running a parallel job on another server, but it is very annoying. Something like the irix checkpoint and restart would be nice, as long as I dont have to link external libraries into the program, which some of the ones I have found require. The old (c1990) dos taskswitcher used to allow this, so nearly 13 years later, linux cannot? (yes I realise that an OS is a lot more complex these days!) BillK On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:55, Daniel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > - -- > Proudly a Gentoo User. > GnuPG/PGP signed and encrypted email preferred > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x32A64DC8 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/mLDJTDSbtjKmTcgRAsaDAKCCc+WKxe3xsmVOY4F4L12CLbX+nwCfZgbA > ekI5gvce2Z4ce7US72t3qKY= > =IzYL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
