[Vm-dev] A fork in the road()

[Nicolas Cellier]

Ah, I have unstacked mails down to this one.
Good reading, thanks Tim.
Personnally, I like:

Another pattern uses fork to capture a consistent snapshot of a running
process’s address space, allowing the parent to continue execution; this
includes persistence support in Redis [68],

just because that's what I proposed a few years ago for our VM ;)
And it probably was a good idea to reject this proposal, since fork is not
a panacea as demonstrated in the article.
The fact that an idea is shared does not make it good, I may say not
completely stupid for own re-assurance ;)

Le sam. 14 déc. 2019 à 00:34, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> a écrit :

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> > On 2019-11-29, at 5:28 AM, Ben Coman <btc at openInWorld.com> wrote:
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> > Sharing an interesting paper I bumped into..
> > > A fork() in the road
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> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf
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> That's pretty interesting stuff. I never did understand the attraction of
> cloning an entire running process only to dump nearly all of it
> immediately. On the other hand, doing pretty much that (except we don't
> dump stuff) with an image seems to work really well...
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> tim
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