Although we roll our own, I would recommend you run a standard kernel unless there is a compelling reason not to. Doing your own kernel takes time and a lot of testing.
----- Original Message ---- From: Peter Kjellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 4:41:02 AM Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Most stable kernel for mpich2 cluster? On Friday 20 October 2006 16:55, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > Hi, > > I build a cluster for Technological Institute of Athens, here, in Greece, > with linux of course. My hardware is sixteen HP DL380 with 3.00GHz Xeon(do > not laugh, I know that my cluster is too small for those, some of you, > design and maintain). I want 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. > What would you do? I would use the kernel already shipped by your linux distribution of choice. This would have several advantages including getting security updates without having to keep track of the details yourself. /Peter _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
