On 28/10/16 00:57, Michael Di Domenico wrote: > i was intrigued by Joe's suggestion of snapshot'ing kvm instances. i > might look into that as an academic exercise. i knew you could > pause/snapshot/resume an instance, but i've never tried to resume a > saved off snapshot, only restart one. if one could resume a snapshot > and have the computation leave off exactly where it was paused, that > might be nifty
Just be aware that if it's writing to external stable storage then you might find those output files get confused depending on whether restarting it also knows to restore those output files back to the point it was checkpointed, or not. If it doesn't then for a sequential log file I'd guess you'd jut see repeated entries, for a random access file it might be more interesting. :-) -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
