From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Tue 29 May 2001 - 13:01:47 IST
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:06:47PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Supposing you need to reboot a machine, but have a process running
> which must not stop.
>
> Is there any way anyone knows of to suspend a process, reboot and
> bring it back up again in the same state it was before??
there was a linux kernel patch to suspend all processes to swap.
workaround for laptops w/o a proper hibernate. the kernel would note
the saved core in swap and restore everything to that state.
i looked into it a long time ago because my compaq presario can't sleep
and can't hibernate to disk, so i was going to try that method.
hunt around for hibernate, laptop, suspend to disk and similar terms
on google.
also, what you discuss is not much different then process migration.
if you're into coding i'd suggest looking at mosix.
kevin
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