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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I ran across this interesting nugget today:</FONT>
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<P><A HREF="http://cryopid.berlios.de"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://cryopid.berlios.de</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> a file This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> or even on a different machine.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> Yes checkpointing software such as this is nothing new, but I was unable to find a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> tool that worked on Linux that did not require at least one of the following:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> o root privileges</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> o modifications to the kernel</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> o recompiling/relinking your software</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> o using an LD_PRELOAD when you start your program</FONT>
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<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Garrett Goebel</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">IS Development Specialist</FONT>
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