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 (already contains latest 4 point stable release): http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck8/patch-2.6.11-ck8.bz2 or http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck8/patch-2.6.11-ck8-server.bz2 web: http://kernel.kolivas.org all patches: http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/ Split patches available. Changes since 2.6.11-ck7: +s11.1_s11.2.diff Small staircase cpu scheduler update for variable overflow on 32bit. May cause noticeable improvements. +patch-2.6.11.9 Latest stable version +2611ck8-version.diff -patch-2.6.11.8 -2611ck7-version.diff Cheers, Con