Its a single static binary (see www.bioconductor.org).  Its running on a
dual athlon (single threaded so a bit of a waste) and my laptop
(2.2GhzP4M) which is the one that crashed when I killed both cdrom
drives and had a runaway I couldnt kill.

However, I have found chpox (freshmeat) which looks good so far as I
have some checkpoints saved off.  In a few hours I will get back to it
and see if I can restore it satisfactorily.

Why do it on a laptop - end result is an over 200mbyte postscript file,
and I only have a dialup at home, and I (was) hoping to get a look at it
as soon as it finished, as the server is at work.  And then I got
interested in checkpointing and ...

BillK

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:34, Mike Williams wrote:
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> On Friday 24 October 2003 06:16, 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.
> >
> > This particular job is not all that important as I am running a parallel
> > job on another server, but it is very annoying.
> 
> If this is one looong jobs, and not hundreds of little jobs like compiling, 
> have you considered a simple mosix cluster?
> If you have another machine you can migrate the job over to it while you 
> reboot, then migrate it back.
> 
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