-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:46 pm, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > one day into a background job scheduled to take 2.5 days, I hung a few > processes and had to reboot, so losing everything.
You must of hung somthing pretty bad too reboot. Normally a kill -9 will fix it. And of course cleaning up for the process if required. > This particular job is not all that important as I am running a parallel > job on another server, but it is very annoying. Can understand. > 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!) That and they probably don't consider reboots a normal part of system operation that they need to design around. Dan - -- 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/mMQdTDSbtjKmTcgRAmdlAJ49cT1hh+/LuJvvcCVk7rKq9k+3cgCeIGEn q8phvdQ7KDY6sXaFp5Nug2U= =/0Ib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
