Brandon Galbraith wrote:
Or run your services/calculations in a VM on Xen that you can snapshot,
upgrade the host, and then bring the VMs back up. There are some things you
just can't get around (like reboots for core components).

That adds a layer of complexity, where's the benefit? Real or virtual, there's still a system "in need of rebooting" if maintenance is applied.




-brandon

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:16 PM, John Summerfield <
[email protected]> wrote:

Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

What do other groups do about updating applications and machines
with long running processes ?

There are people who use beowulf clusters, mosix and, I was going to mention, openmosix, but the project is defunct).



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