[NTLUG:Discuss] upgrade kernel only?

[David Camm]

of course..... i didn't think i had to state the obvious and whatever we
do will be done on a test machine first. was just wondering if this was
reasonable.


Rusty Haddock wrote:
> 
> David Camm wrote:
>     >we're running a very stable redhat 5.2 server which we recently upgraded
>     >to an MP configuration. the kernel gen (2.0.36) went quite well and
>     >we've been running now for 40 days on the MP.
>     >
>     >i've heard that the 2.2 kernels have much better MP support than the
>     >'old' 2.0 kernels.
>     >
>     >now here's the dumb question:
>     >
>     >rather than upgrading from 5.2 to 6.1, which may require a lot of
>     >re-build and editing of conf files, can we go get the kernel source for
>     >(say) 2.2.16 and just gen the new kernel and modules? if feasible, is
>     >this prudent for a production server?
> 
> The "prudent" thing to do is to try out any upgrade on a non-production
> server.  Why would you test on a PRODUCTION machine?

 
>     >any advice would be greatly appreciated.....
> 
> It was free and that may very well have been the only good thing about it. :-)
> 
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