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Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch

Posted by timothy on from the you-go-first dept.

climenole writes "Phoronix recently published an article regarding a ~200 line Linux Kernel patch that improves responsiveness under system strain. Well, Lennart Poettering, a Red Hat developer, replied to Linus Torvalds on a mailing 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."

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  1. Re:Also from the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "There isn't a difference between the kernel patch and the command line hack. They are equivalent."

    Except one is user controlled, and the other is forced.

    "Linus recommends the kernel patch"

    How does this effect servers? Will this now require a desktop and server kernel? Where right now you can use the same kernel, and modify /etc/bashrc on desktop systems?

  2. Re:What does this do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The answer is about 10 replies from the top of this thread. And elsewhere in the thread, I'm sure.