On 4/13/19 3:32 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I reboot when I yum update to a new kernel or systemd, which seems to > come out about once a month. Should I do it for this week's glibc? Is > that "core" enough to justify a reboot or should I wait for the next > kernel update? This is basically your decision, and you seem to know what update brings. On an uptime note: in my observation since about the time kernel 2.6 was introduced Linux has to be rebooted on average every 45 days (either kernel or glibc security update). This was mainly what made me move my servers from CentOS Linux to FreeBSD. Valeri > I know the glibc update was mainly to handle the new > Japanese calendar, so that shouldn't affect my usage. So my question is > more about how shared libraries work and whether anything bad would > happen with different forks of running services (mainly the mail suite > with dovecot and the various content scanners launched by sendmail) > running different versions of the library based on when they were > started. _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++