yum update should do it for you.
Mike
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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of mbeltran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:47 PM
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: how to update kernel
Hi
I have a trouble with centOS 4
The process kswapd0 eat almost all my memory space, and also this process
get almost 100 percent of cpu, and the box go slow
I have read that this problem is fix when the kernel is upgrade but I do not
know hot to update my kernel. when I type yum list \kernel* I get the
following list:
[xxx@xxxxxx]# yum list \kernel*
Setting up Repos
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
addons : ################################################## 2/2
base : ################################################## 1404/1404
update : ################################################## 80/80
extras : ################################################## 25/25
Installed Packages
kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL
installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL installed
kernel-utils.i386 1:2.4-13.1.48
installed
Available Packages
kernel.i586 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-devel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-devel.i586 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-doc.noarch 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-hugemem.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-hugemem-devel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-smp.i586 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-smp-devel.i586 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-smp-devel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
kernel-sourcecode.noarch 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL update
I know that i have to update kernel.i686 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL and kernel-smp.i686
2.6.9-5.0.5.EL but I am not sure what are the steps or instructions that I
should follow to get it
Regards
Mario
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