Information about the package, dmtcp, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dmtcp package is designed for, Checkpoint/Restart functionality for Linux processes.
Package Name:
dmtcp
Summary:
Checkpoint/Restart functionality for Linux processes
Description:
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to transparently checkpointing the state of an arbitrary group of programs including multi-threaded and distributed computations. It operates directly on the user binary executable, with no Linux kernel modules or other kernel mods. Among the applications supported by DMTCP are Open MPI, MATLAB, Python, Perl, and many programming languages and shell scripting languages. DMTCP also supports GNU screen sessions, including vim/cscope and emacs. With the use of TightVNC, it can also checkpoint and restart X-Windows applications, as long as they do not use extensions (e.g.: no OpenGL, no video). This package contains DMTCP binaries.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.5.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
817 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3+
Control the dmtcp package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dmtcp
This command will install dmtcp on the server.
yum remove dmtcp
This command will un-install dmtcp on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dmtcp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dmtcp
This command will un-install dmtcp on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dmtcp when using the -y flag.
yum update dmtcp
This command will update dmtcp to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dmtcp, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dmtcp
This command will update dmtcp to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dmtcp when using the -y flag.
yum info dmtcp
This command will show you core information about the dmtcp package.
yum deplist dmtcp
This command will show you the dependencies for dmtcp. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update dmtcp
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dmtcp. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.