Process migration in unix

Date of Publication

1996

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

College

College of Computer Studies

Department/Unit

Computer Science

Honor/Award

Awarded as best thesis, 1996

Thesis Adviser

Philip Chan

Abstract/Summary

This thesis discusses how a process migration mechanism was designed and implemented on workstation clusters running UNIX FreeBSD version 2.1.0. The mechanism was built entirely outside the kernel, which resulted in a simple, transparent, and portable implementation. Processes which communicate via signals, access NFS files, and those that depend on their execution environment may be migrated without sacrificing functionality. Migration was achieved by saving the process context to checkpoint files, and using these files to restore the process on the destination host. Programs are linked with a migration library in order for them to be check pointed and eventually migrated.

Abstract Format

html

Note

With: Technical manual, user's manual

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU13593

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

1 v. (various foliations) : ill. ; 28 cm.

Keywords

UNIX (Computer file); UNIX systems programming; Operating systems (Computers); Systems programming (Computer science)

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