Would Minters recommend this kernel patch?

[d00med]

Here in this Reddit post is a PPA for a 200 line kernel patch to increase responsiveness. I'm running Mint 10 Julia. Is this something I, as a newbie, should avoid, in your general opinion?

[xenopeek]

Not necessarily something you benefit from; only helps if you have CPU heavy applications running in parallel.

Check your kernel version:

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uname -r

This patch is included already in 2.6.38 and up.

[d00med]

2.6.35 here.

[xenopeek]

2.6.35 here.

Then it might be worth doing, if you find with some heavy applications you use other applications become sluggish.

Also consider that there is a simple few lines you can add, that do the same as the 200 line kernel patch. No need to recompile your kernel http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=sHRYRuAN

[Roken]

I'm pretty sure that the 200 line patch has been made redundant by later kernels, so unless you are using .35 for a particular reason you could just upgrade your kernel.

[d00med]

Thanks