I'd suggest asking this on the kernel.org maillists, Since i don't think LVS clustering has many special requirements on the kernel.
Any new fresh kernel 1.6.18 might need a bunch of security/stability fixes, But on the other hand , the 2.6.17 kerne should allready have received most of those simple fixes, and shoud thus be stable.
Maybe if you need special patches (no-arp), that only support a fixed set of kernels, then you need to look for a special kernel version, but that depends on your patches.
I'm running a cluster of 6 dl360's (g1), so your's looks like a beast next to mine :P
with regards
Jan
On 10/16/06, Christopoulos Panagiwtis
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Hi,
I build a cluster for Technological Institute of Athens, here, in Greece, with gentoo. My hardware is sixteen HP DL380 with 3.00GHz Xeon(do not laugh, I know that my cluster is too small for those you design and maintain). I read in gentoo hpc documentantion that I have to install the pure vanilla-sources but I have problem to decide the best version. 2.6.18.1 is out but I think that it' s not a good idea to install the latest kernel, so, I would like to tell me your opinion(eg, I think debian is using 2.6.8(too old!))
Panos
I'm still a student of computers science in Athens, so, don't find my question silly plz :p
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