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Checkpointing/restore, as mentioned above, can be used for fault tolerance and load distribution. | |||
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Revision as of 08:05, 24 October 2012
= Checkpoint/Restore
Summary
Add support to checkpoint and restore processes. Checkpointing processes can be used for fault tolerance and/or load balancing.
Checkpointing a process in regular intervals can help to restart a process if it might crash to resume/restart/restore the calculation without too much data lost. Providing this ability transparent at the OS level removes the need to implement this functionality for all processes manually.
Checkpointing and restoring a process to another system can be used to migrate a process, process tree or container to another system to distribute the load during the runtime and also for maintenance without service interruption like it is possible with virtual machines.
Owner
- Name: Adrian Reber
- Email: <adrian@lisas.de>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 19
- Last updated: 2012-10-24
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
Checkpointing/restore, as mentioned above, can be used for fault tolerance and load distribution.