Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

[Timothy Murphy]

kalinix wrote:

> ksplice works only for kernels. And make several modules out of the
> deltas between the kernel release, which will be loaded in the older
> kernel. So you'll end up with, let's say 2.6.33.6-147 and a bunch of
> modules covering the patches up to the 2.6.33.8-149. Technically you are
> at 2.6.33.8-149. Practically you still run 2.6.33.6-147 (with
> improvements :) ).

What exactly is ksplice meant to do?
I yum-installed it today, 
and then ran "yum update" which installed a new kernel.
I expected this to start running, but it didn't.
Admittedly I didn't read any instructions.


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