Re: Checkpointing of simple programs in FreeBSD

2012-03-19 Thread K. Macy
Take a look at gcore. That will let you checkpoint memory mappings and registers. The dragonfly implementation also keeps track of the sbrk value and open file handles which you will need to handle separately. Restoring the mappings and register state should be straightforward. I'm not sure at how

Checkpointing of simple programs in FreeBSD

2012-03-19 Thread kota saikrishna
I found that checkpointing and restart of a process is available for DragonFlyBSD. I need this feature for FreeBSD. How can I checkpoint simple programs in FreeBSD such that they can be restored and run from the checkpointed state? For example, can someone tell me the steps so that I can checkpoint