Just tried it on my Debian Lenny and a half laptop. Boot up and shutdown are a little bit slower. Otherwise it runs fine. It seems to feel a bit snappier, but I hate to judge on how it "feels". That's precisely when the placebo effect kicks in.
Robert Mike B. wrote:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html >From the article: "Phoronix recently published an article regarding a ~200 lines Linux Kernel patch that improves responsiveness under system strain. Well, Lennart Poettering, a RedHat developer replied to Linus Torvalds on a maling list with an alternative to this patch that does the same thing yet all you have to do is run 2 commands and paste 4 lines in your ~/.bashrc file. I know it sounds unbelievable, but apparently someone even ran some tests which prove that Lennart's solution works. Read on! "Basically, Lennart explains you have to add this to your ~/.bashrc file (important: this won't work on Ubuntu. See instructions for Ubuntu further down the post!):"
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