I want to be able to run CRIU, a tool that let’s us “checkpoint” a Linux process and “restore” it later. Having CRIU would let us build tools that let us:
- time travel debugging: go back to a frame or a request before
- checkpoint a process just after it crashes, save the image for debugging. We can create a reverse proxy to the chrome devtools protocol the crashing process will expose via
--inspect. - migrate game arenas from Glitch to a more powerful server when more players come online
I already figured out how to download and install the CIRU binaries on this thread, but I get an error when I try dumping a process with CRIU on the command line.
I’m a leader of Arras, an open-source fan-made sequel game. Many people use Glitch with Arras as a platform to learn programming. Games have lots of persistent state and would benefit from technology like CRIU.