At Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:24:03 +0100, Andrew Flegg wrote: > Today's LWN has an interesting article on a patchset being developed > to give checkpoint & restart functionality to Linux: > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/293575/03bb471d0d0b9261/ > > This'd effectively allow the kernel to freeze a process and restore it > at a later date. The immediate thought in my mind was using this to > help automatically deal with low-memory, low-battery and standby > problems in Maemo. > > It's still very immature, but something Maemo kernel hackers may be > interested in.
You may want to check out DMTCP, which I have heard is fairly stable: http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ and its associated paper: "Transparent User-Level Checkpointing for the Native POSIX Thread Library for Linux" by Michael Rieker, Jason Ansel and Gene Cooperman, PDPTA 2006 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/papers/pdpta06.pdf Neal _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
