RHEL 3 - 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL update

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Harsh Busa a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I m a little new to RHEL servers. We have a server running some really
> critical stuff and are fairly happy with it
> <snip>
> [root at myServer log]# uname -a
> Linux myServer.com 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL #1 Tue May 17 17:55:54 EDT 2005 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> </snip>
> recently we are facing some issues with mysql getting stuck and now the
> server suddenly frooze and no valuable information seems to be
> registered in
> the log files.
>
> Redhat network suggest  upgrading to newer kernel
> <snip>
> [root at myServer log]# up2date -l
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3-extras...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
>
> Name                                    Version        Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:
>
> Name                                    Version        Rel  Reason
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> kernel                                  2.4.21         40.ELPkg
> name/pattern
> kernel-doc                              2.4.21         40.ELPkg
> name/pattern
> kernel-source                           2.4.21         40.ELPkg
> name/pattern
> kernel-utils                            2.4           
> 8.37.14Pkgname/pattern
>
> </snip>
>
> Has anyone faced any issues whatsoever with this kernel ? Should I go
> ahead
> and upgrade to this release ?
>
> Regards
> Harsh

I'm using this kernel for Oracle servers, embedded systems and
file-sharing servers ... and .. no problem at this time.


Regards

js.