Could Linux become FASTER??

Not sure if any of you have heard this or not. From what I am hearing, it actually does make a significant difference. The original kernal patch was over 200 lines long, then Phoronix came out with an alternative patch that is only 4 lines long and is supposed to work even better than the original 200+ line patch.

Here is the original article:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-lin...ot-faster/10372

Then this is the alternative article:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative...rnel-patch.html
"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!):"


Just thought I would pass it along. Might just give this a try or course backing up my .bashrc file first.
Correct me if I am wrong but would the best route to go for that be to save an additional .bashrc file as a different name. So if I screw up, I can go back to this one and have my .bashrc back to the way it was?

Would the code be let's say I want to save as .bashrc1

Code:

cp ~/ .bashrc ~/ .bashrc1

Would you recommend a better idea?

Take care and have a great weekend.

Ian

 

first - your 2 links don't work - page not found

second - have you seen your .bashrc file ? - its a bit empty

third - best way i have found of backing up a file is right click copy, right click paste,
paste it into your documents directory and remove the . (the dot at the beginning),
this will unhide it

a quote from your /etc/bashrc

in my opinion there is no point in editing the one in your /home/ unless you really want to tweak your system and its for a single user only,
but you won't learn if you don't experiment :-D

 

Well it did not work anyway. Responses to the blog were that most other people could not get it to work either. Guess we will just wait for the kernal upgrade when it comes out.
I have my .bashrc back to where it was when I started so all is still working well. As mentioned in the past, this rig is just for learning, and if I screw something up, no big deal, start all over again.
This was actually a good learning experience as I was able to do a few CLI functions as well as utilization of KWrite. So all is not lost. :celebrate

Not sure what happened to the links. Try this one. http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html

 

ichase, as I recall the com writer HIMSELF did not apply the patch to test. The comments will not load to see if that changed.

It would better to wait for an advance TESTED kernel rather than testing "a fix not proven."

 

Your right, I tend to be hard headed most of the time. :-D

Ian