On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Dave Stevens<geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines