Discussion -- perhaps a trollette -- re: upgrades !

[William Hooper]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Dave Stevens<geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 August 2009 06:43:35 pm Tim wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 16:42 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
>> > and on that point, I've done kernel upgrades to my Centos 5.3 box many
>> > times with no reboot.
>>
>> Do you *just* mean doing a "kernel upgrade" or do you mean an upgrade
>> and *using* the new kernel, too?
>
> yes, both. Last reboot on the old serevr beside me was 148 days ago and three
> kernel updates that I recall.
>
> [root at cserver ~]# uname -a
> Linux cserver.davedomain 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:19:18 EDT 2009
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Dave

So the kernel you are running was compiled in April (when did you
reboot last?).  What about the 5 kernels released since Apr?
kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5
kernel-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.16.el5
kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5

-- 
William Hooper