From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] process migration In-Reply-To: <181e352f.0309172305.5c4b343d@posting.google.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:38:26 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3cd321f4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: > does it allow processes from moving from cpu server A to cpu server B > after executing from sometime on server A? how is this different from > UNIX? it's not, neither Plan 9 nor Unix support this in a general way. There are systems that support this in a limited way, however. People keep wanting migration across OS instances to work the way that it works on CPUs in an SMP. It doesn't, and never has, except in very special cases. It's easy to get the easy parts right, hard to get the hard parts right, and impossible to get the impossible parts right. Most people stop at easy and call it a day. ron