[CentOS] Reboots

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:15:28PM -0400, Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> >>3.  If glibc is updated, you must reboot to have many processes use the 
> >>new glibc.
> >
> >This can be acomplished without the need of a reboot.</SNIP>
> > 
> Yeah, now that I reread it, I don't know what I was thinking when I 
> wrote that. I do know that we had a machine that had been up for YEARS 
> with processes each running various versions of glibc, but looking back, 
> I think the reboot was done because it was easier that identifying each 
> process and restarting them in order.

That, my friend, is very much true.

Depending on the kind of server you are running (mumber of different
processes), a reboot will be much easier. Did that myself a few times.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
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