Re: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible?
Andreas Kostyrka (andreas@ag.or.at)
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 17:05:31 +0000 (GMT)
On 1 Oct 1997, Ketil Z Malde wrote:
> > As has been repeatedly proven, moving an already started process is a lose
> > almost 100% of the time.
>
> Right. Unless somebody just typed shutdown -hnow at the #-rompt.
What does process migration help you in this case? *wonder*
What if the admin is doing a shutdown because of a fork bomb? (Or some
stuck processes in D state?)
Any network client will be still accessing the TCP/IP stack of the node
being brought down, right? What do you do with the CD-R being burnt? What
do you do with some broken hardware that is really difficult to
checkpoint. What do you do with printjob? Anything using external
resources is bound to break anyway ;(
Andreas