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On Friday 24 October 2003 06:16, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> one day into a background job scheduled to take 2.5 days, I hung a few
> processes and had to reboot, so losing everything.
>
> This particular job is not all that important as I am running a parallel
> job on another server, but it is very annoying.

If this is one looong jobs, and not hundreds of little jobs like compiling, 
have you considered a simple mosix cluster?
If you have another machine you can migrate the job over to it while you 
reboot, then migrate it back.

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Mike Williams
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