CentOS-2 has all the patches up to and including Update 4 (Q2 2004). There may also be patches from after that update. Anything which is not included on the CD is in the yum repository so running yum update will always make sure that you are running the latest, and update you to the next Q update when it is released.

As for your problem, I am not sure what you mean by 'CPU cycling' but check using the usual tools to see what is going on. top and vmstat will be good places to start. Often internal kernel work which is not process specific will drive up the load average without a process showing up in top. Network traffic is one example and I think pipes between processes can also cause this. vmstat will show your rate of swap in and swap out which is very useful.

John.

jack@leadershipbynumbers.com wrote:

I'm pretty sure that I'm not asking the question correctly, but I'd like to host a database that is supported with RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with Update 2 (Q2 2003), so I'm assuming CentOS-2 fills the bill. However, when I run this application, I get some weird CPU cycling that I can't trace to any specific task. So, perhaps my install is not as current as I think it is. I have run yum for both upgrade and update. Thanks, Jack Jack@skillstogrowon.com

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