Re: [Condor-users] Checkpointing Condor's vanilla universe jobs.

[Mark Calleja <M.Calleja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi José,

Thanks for your feedback. What you suggest should not be too difficult 
to add, so if you're interested I can send you a modified version of the 
code for you to test.

Cheers,
Mark

José M. Martín wrote:
> Thanks for your contribution.
>
> I used it to my Condor cluster and it works greatly. Only a suggestion: you 
> can trap Condor's signals to force to your programs to make a checkpoint.
> When Condor vacates a program, it sends it a signal (killsig) 
> (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.0/2_7Priorities_Preemption.html#SECTION00373000000000000000)
> Trapping this signal, programs could make a checkpoint before stop.
>
> Cheers,
> José
>
>
>
> El Monday 04 February 2008 12:37:43 Mark Calleja escribió:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > In case it's of use or interest to anyone else on this mailing list,
> > I've written some notes on how one can use Parrot and the BLCR kernel
> > modules to transparently checkpoint Condor's vanilla universe jobs. The
> > link is:
> >
> > http://www.escience.cam.ac.uk/projects/camgrid/blcr.html
> >
> > This is recent/ongoing work, so feedback and/or bug reports back to me
> > please.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
> >     
>
>
>
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