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What is process migration and where it is exactly used ?

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What is process migration and where it is exactly used ?
posted Nov 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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In Process Migration process, a process moves from one machine to another machine. While doing this activity, source machine make sure about the state of process. In all the states, a running process can't be transfer one machine to another machine. Most probably, when source machine doesn't have sufficient amount of memory then this transfer can be initiated.

answer Dec 17, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar
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