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From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@freebsd.netcom.com>
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Subject: re: 5.0 features?
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:11:51 -0600 (CST)
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Something that the old DEC took a few stabs at was the idea of a
"checkpoint" feature where a process or a series of processes could be
put in a quiesced state.  This would page out the process or processes
into the swap space, allow a hardware shutdown, and after a reboot allow
the restart of the checkpointed process(es).

(Not as fun as SMP but fairly slick)

Later

Mark Hittinger
Earthlink!Mindspring!Netcom!Dallas
bugs@freebsd.netcom.com


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