William L. Maltby wrote: > Also, if a package that is currently running has been updated, or that > package is currently using a package which has been updated and you want > the currently running things to start using the new stuff _now_, you'll > want to restart those packages. Until those packages end, disk space and > ram memory is not finally freed. > many service RPMs seem to do the restart automatically, I've noticed this with Postgres servers, at least. of course, restarting a database server can interrupt any running processes that are using it...