On 07/14/2013 07:49 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Please test if you can and report back with your findings (good, bad, > no diff ...). Note that the packages are not signed and are provided > for testing purposes only. on a dell R420, 4x500gb sata platters -> no diff in perf ( using iozone ) on the same machine, with the disks replaced with a 128gb Crucial M4 ssd, again no difference in perf with iozone between this kernel and the distro kernel. Which then has me thinking - what is the actual problem we are trying to solve here ? and how can I ratify that ? - KB -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc