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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2006
Christopher A. Vick, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael H. Paleczny, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay R. Freeman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lawrence G. Votta, Jr., Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher A. Vick, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael H. Paleczny, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay R. Freeman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lawrence G. Votta, Jr., Sammamish, WA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for checkpointing a system that includes receiving a stop command by an executing thread from a master, wherein the executing thread executes an operating system, continuing execution of the executing thread until a checkpoint is reached after receiving the stop command, halting execution of the executing thread at the checkpoint, and checkpointing the system by storing a state and a snapshot of memory.