Am 25.09.2011 22:18, schrieb Lifshitz, Yair:
From: Edward Diener<eldiener@tropicsoft.com>
Hi,
Object-based persistency/serialization libraries often require significant modifications to the code. Would Boost consider adding a process-level checkpointing library to boost? Why not explain what you mean by a "process-level checkpointing library" and then others can comment if they might find it useful ? Process-level checkpointing is an approach where an entire process' memory image is dumped in binary format. The checkpointing library does not require any understanding of the saved application - it works by traversing
On 9/24/2011 10:31 AM, Lifshitz, Yair wrote: the entire memory image and directly dumping that to disk.
On Linux for example, this can be done by traversing all memory segments described in /proc/self/maps.
This approach is highly robust, and generally considered good for very large applications where serialization is a challenge.
Some examples can be seen here - http://checkpointing.org/ - though we had little luck with most of them when starting to work on persistency (~6 years ago).
I assume resuming from a checkpoint would also require to restore the registers, flags, stack (pointer), instruction pointer etc. - I'd like to know if your lib supports only intel or some other architectures too. Oliver