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 cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace.<snip>
Apply to 2.6.17
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.17/2.6.17-ck1/patch-2.6.17-ck1.bz2
or server version
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/cks/patch-2.6.17-cks1.bz2
web:
http://kernel.kolivas.org
all patches:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/
Split patches available.
Full patchlist: