Re: Core dumps & restarting
lists-nicholas@binary9.net
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:28:18 -0500 (EST)
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# > What about the system save-state that SCO uses to recover from UPS initiated
# > shutdown? They write out the machine state into the swap partition.
# > When you restart your system, it picks up right where it left off. Nice.
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# > I have run an application which used over 300Mb virtual memory - wonder
# > what the SCO box would have done with that beast <distributed simulation>.
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# The big problem with freezing processes or machine state and restoring
# it later is that the context gets partially lost like non-local network
The really big problem is saving and restoring the state of hardware.
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