Re: Aren't upgrades demanding too much restarts?

> 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. > Sounds very cool, and I had not heard of it before today also, but here is the results of yum info ksplice: Summary : Patching a Linux kernel without reboot URL : http://ksplice.com License : GPLv2 Description : Ksplice allows system administrators to apply security patches to : the Linux kernel without having to reboot. Ksplice takes as : input a source code change in unified diff format and the : kernel source code to be patched, and it applies the patch : to the corresponding running kernel. The running kernel does : not need to have been prepared in advance in any way. Is it too good to be true?