[CentOS] using Red Hat site for documentation

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Wed Jul 30 23:37:51 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:03:29PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 1. How often do you reboot your Linux servers? (every about 45 days there
> is either kernel or glibc update. I remember somewhere about RedHat 5 -
> RedHat 7 machines having uptime about 2 years)

Eventually, you'll be able to use kpatch to avoid reboots for kernel
updates, (http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2014/02/26/kpatch/), however I
tend to think that Uptime is overrated.  Newer technologies, such as
VMs and containers, allow services to not be tied to single servers
anymore.  Anyway, it's hardly Red Hat's fault that it addresses
security issues promptly.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>



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