Download Tarball: criu-3.19.tar.gz Version: 3.19 "Bronze Peacock" Released: 27 Nov 2023 GIT tag: v3.19 Installation • Usage Releases

Welcome to CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux in userspace.

Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace, or CRIU, is a software tool for Linux operating system. Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to a hard drive as a collection of files. You can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space.

The project is currently under very active development. CRIU is a sub-project of OpenVZ.

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Using

CR tools

Main checkpoint/restore utility description (sort of HOWTO)

Usage scenarios

Ideas how crtools can be used (some are crazy indeed)

What software is supported

Describes TODO list in higher level terms

LXC

How to dump and restore an LXC container

Developing

If you're interested in CRIU development, please subscribe to the criu mailing list: https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/criu

Images

Description of image files format

Commits

Mainline kernel commits tracker

ZDTM Test Suite

Zero downtime test suite

TODO

Current TODO list

Events Open Source Summit North America 2024 April 17, 2024, Seattle, Washington Investigating Checkpoint and Restore for GPU-Accelerated Containers NVIDIA GTC 2024 March 21, 2024, San Jose, CA Achieving K8S and Public Cloud Operational Efficiency using a New Checkpoint/Restart Feature for GPUs KubeCon EU 2024 March 22, 2024, Paris, France The Party Must Go on - Resume Pods After Spot Instance Shut Down Enabling Coordinated Checkpointing for Distributed HPC Applications FOSDEM 2024 February 3, 2024, Brussels, Belgium Zeroing and the semantic gap between host and guest Forensic container checkpointing and analysis

Under the hood

• Sockets
• Memory dumping and restoring
• Checkpoint/Restore
• TCP connection
• Porting crtools to new kernel releases
• Files

External links

• 2024-04-22, Just-In-Time Checkpointing: Low Cost Error Recovery from Deep Learning Training Failures
• 2024-04-22, Pronghorn: Effective Checkpoint Orchestration for Serverless Hot-Starts
• 2023-11-12, Checkpoint/Restart for CUDA Kernels
• 2023-10-23, Evicting for the greater good: The Case for Reactive Checkpointing in Serverless Computing
• 2023-04-20, A Dynamic Checkpoint Interval Decision Algorithm for Live Migration-Based Drone-Recovery System
• 2023-03-10, Forensic Container Analysis
• 2023-01-14, Async-fork: Mitigating Query Latency Spikes Incurred by the Fork-based Snapshot Mechanism from the OS Level
• 2022-12-05, Forensic container checkpointing in Kubernetes
• 2022-11-13, Out of hypervisor (OoH): efficient dirty page tracking in userspace using hardware virtualization feature

More external articles...

Other

• Project history
• Logo description
• Events
• Join the CRIU acronym fun

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