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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
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