Libckpt: Transparent checkpointing under Unix

James S. Plank, Micah Beck, Gerry Kingsley, Kai Li

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Abstract

Checkpointing is a simple technique for rollback recovery: the state of an executing program is periodically saved to a disk file from which it can be recovered after a failure. While recent research has developed a collection of powerful techniques for minimizing the overhead of writing checkpoint files, checkpointing remains unavailable to most application developers. In this paper we describe libckpt, a portable checkpointing tool for Unix that implements all applicable performance optimizations which are reported in the literature. While libckpt can be used in a mode which is almost totally transparent to the programmer, it also supports the incorporation of user directives into the creation of checkpoints. This user-directed checkpointing is an innovation which is unique to our work.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUSENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings
PublisherUSENIX Association
ISBN (Electronic)1880446677, 9781880446676
StatePublished - 1995
EventUSENIX 1995 Technical Conference - New Orleans, United States
Duration: Jan 16 1995Jan 20 1995

Publication series

NameUSENIX 1995 Technical Conference Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceUSENIX 1995 Technical Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period1/16/951/20/95

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science

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