Sorry, typo.

http://www.ksplice.com/


Ken Teh wrote:
> I was at a linux conference and met someone who sells a tool to patch 
> linux kernels live without rebooting.
> 
> http://www.kspice.com
> 
> 
> 
> Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> What do other groups do about updating applications and machines
>> with long running processes ?
>>
>> My users run two sorts of long running processes, with different
>> problems when it comes to updates.
>>
>> First, I have users who never log off. Thus applications like
>> firefox and pdf viewers will be running when they are updated.
>> Some time later these applications may try to load and run plugins
>> which have been removed/updated.
>>
>> Second, I have users with long running calculations (often weeks
>> or more) which would be interrupted if the machine were rebooted into 
>> an updated kernel. User-writing code often check-points, so the actual 
>> calculation time lost is not significant, but calculations in
>> commercial packages such as Mathematica and Maple are often less good 
>> about check-pointing.
>>
>> How do people balance the disruption of killing user processes
>> against the need to update to the latest versions of software ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>