These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. Apply to 2.6.11 (this includes all the patches from 2.6.11.12): http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck10/patch-2.6.11-ck10.bz2 or http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck10/patch-2.6.11-ck10-server.bz2 web: http://kernel.kolivas.org all patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/ Split patches available. Changes since 2.6.11-ck9: -patch-2.6.11.11 +patch-2.6.11.12 Latest stable version +2611ck9-smpnice-fix1.diff A fix for smp nice calculations +s11.2_s11.3.diff Update the staircase cpu scheduler to the latest version which includes the interactivity fix for recent changes in pipe behaviour -2611ck9-version.diff +2611ck10-version.diff Version Cheers, Con