[Beowulf] backtraces

Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jun 12 06:08:32 PDT 2007


On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Mark Hahn wrote:

> part of the reason I got a kick out of this simple backtrace.so
> is indeed that it's quite possible to conceive of a checkpoint.so
> which uses /proc/$pid/fd and /proc/$pid/maps to do a possibly decent job of 
> checkpointing at least serial codes non-intrusively.

IIRC, condor has just such a library that it uses both for serial job
migration and checkpointing.

    rgb

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