OS updates without reboot

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:05:59 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Is it "NOT" ok to do OS updates on 20.04 and not reboot ?
> 
> I have run into a couple cases (where I manually did updates - but no
> reboot) and
> ksoftirq was taking 100% of cpu sometime there after.
> 
>  I reboot and of course dont see the problem again.

You should always reboot if the update includes a new kernel.  Otherwise I 
don't think it should be needed.

> 
> Weird for sure.
> 
> jerry
> 

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