checkpoint-restart (was Re: suspending programs)

From: michael (linux_at_networkingnewsletter.org.uk)
Date: 04/19/05

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:10:50 +0100

    On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 03:32 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
    > hi ya
    >
    > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, roberto wrote:
    > > Hello,
    > > i usually run large simulations, and it happened sometimes power to go down
    > > suddenly, i don't know why.
    >
    > > I'd like to restart my programs just at the same point where they have been
    > > suspended.
    >
    > are you save the sate fo the simulation ?? if not ...it's impossible to
    > continue from where you crashed
    >

    I've done a quick apt-cache search (sarge apt sources) for something
    like IRIX's `cpr`:

         IRIX Checkpoint and Restart (CPR) offers a set of user-transparent
         software management tools, allowing system administrators,
    operators, and
         users with suitable privileges to suspend a job or a set of jobs in
    mid-
         execution, and restart them later on. The jobs may be running on a
         single machine or on an array of networking connected machines.
    CPR may
         be used to enhance system availability, provide load and resource
    control
         or balancing, and to facilitate simulation or modeling.

    which he could use, eg by checkpointing every N hours and then use the
    restart with power back on. The chk pt in this case writes memory image
    to disk, the other alt is for Roberto to do checkpointing within the
    simulation (eg write state vars to a file) and knock up a quick restart
    routine. For any decent/large sim code, I'd guess these already exist...

    It's hugely unlikely you'd be able to restart at the exact same place,
    but cpr would allow you to not lose everything (don't forget there's a
    large cost assoc with writing lots of data to disk) 

    -- 
Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester
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