On 06/23/2015 10:46 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
It's not the question of "faster" but that you simply do not know if it is safe to restart running process.
More to the point there could well be running processes that are not direct children of systemd, user application "work in progress", that cannot be shutdown. Perhaps this is irrelevant to you as a home user, a desktop user of a single user system, but in a large scale production system, the "SLES"-class services, shutting down, even for kernel patches, costs business and might alienate customers to the point they walk away. Even in my youth, the idea that the mainframe at the service bureau might shut down for an upgrade was alarming! Now, with the 4.x kernel, you can patch the kernel without shutting down and rebooting. I'll be quite frank: rebooting is what causes problems in my life. I'm facing a problem with GRUB2 not working right now. More on that later. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org