From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 20 01:18:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82BA1065676 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout026.mac.com (asmtpout026.mac.com [17.148.16.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D12D8FC17 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:18:34 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp026.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KWI00L1SUAEVT40@asmtp026.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:18:15 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001190243 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:18:14 -0800 Message-id: <769E7347-1B84-4119-83DF-4C07A1E24B24@mac.com> References: To: Diego Montalvo X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting after Make Install.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:18:34 -0000 On Jan 19, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Diego Montalvo wrote: > Been using FreeBSD for a long time now, but have never really been > sure if FreeBSD needs to be restarted after installing a Port or Ports > using "make install clean"? What is the best practice... Used to > restarting Windows for everything... The simple answer is that you almost never need to restart a Unix operating system short of an update to the kernel itself, and with kernel modules even that can be avoided in many cases. The general answer for ports is no, you don't need to restart. In some cases, if you update a significant proportion of the shared libraries and want to avoid having two copies taking up memory, it can be easier to reboot than to restart all of the processes which were using the updated shared libraries. For example, if you update something huge like X11, GTK, etc it might be more convenient... Regards, -- -Chuck