yum update should do it for you.

Mike

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of mbeltran@americatel.com.sv Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 12:47 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 11:46 -0600, mbeltran@americatel.com.sv wrote:

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

http://fedora.ivazquez.net/content/view/26/30/