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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 07:23:32 -0500
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- From: stephen@BOKONON.UUCP
- Subject: Re: Patching Netware 3.11 - Which Patches?
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- $There was a question about loading all the patches available or only
- $load some of them. I would like to know what other people do.
- $
- $I think both options are acceptable but wich one is best?
-
- Novell states quite clearly in the documentation accompanying patches
- that you should only load ones for problems which you are experiencing.
- Both options are _not_ necessarily acceptable.
-
- Novell tests each patch on its own. Novell does not test all
- possible combinations of patches, so they do not recommend that you
- perform this testing for them. It is not likely that loading two
- or three different patches to cure two or three different problems
- that you don't have will cause unpleasant interactions between the
- patches, but it is possible, and that's a risk you probably don't
- want to take.
-
- You also raise a memory issue ... most patches are quite small
- and even loading a dozen patches would probably take away only a
- handful of cache buffers. Unless you're dreadfully short of
- cache (which is a problem in itself), you shouldn't need to be
- concerned about memory overhead. If you want to see how much
- memory each one uses, take a stable system (i.e. one that isn't
- allocating more packet buffers, service processes, etc.) and load
- the patches one at a time. Look in monitor to see how much memory
- you lose each time. Chances are it isn't very much.
-
- -Steve
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