Comments on Geek with an attitude: The Linux Speed Boost!

@madhaw4 chances are your initrd was at fault. In ...

2010-11-25T10:07:01.324+05:30

@madhaw4 chances are your initrd was at fault. In anycase you could have booted off of the previous kernel rather than reinstall. Anyway good it worked out in the end.

Anyone try the redhat guys method which requires no kernel patch?

Bud , thanks for this good article. I can see sign...

2010-11-25T09:40:20.406+05:30

Bud , thanks for this good article.
I can see significant performance improvement after applying this patch on my dv6/Ubuntu 10.10 (64).

Encountered a mismatch doing this. Probably my fau...

2010-11-25T01:13:30.340+05:30

Encountered a mismatch doing this. Probably my fault because I did things in a hurry. However whole system got crashed and had to re-install Ubuntu. Today I saw a blog post. After following their script's finally I made it. There's actually a boost in the patch. Thank you so much.

I tried this and after installing the kernal deb, ...

2010-11-23T17:30:34.736+05:30

I tried this and after installing the kernal deb, I got a kernal panic error saying "Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block".

After updating the initramfs and grub it started to work. :D

Steps I followed to fix the kernal panic.

1. Boot the machine using ubuntu live CD
2. chroot and mount your old file system
3. sudo update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.37-rc3-custom
4.sudo update-grub

@galpotha That is most interesting. Must try it la...

2010-11-22T16:49:44.438+05:30

@galpotha That is most interesting. Must try it later tonight with Ubuntu official kernel and compare.

should try this after the semester ends. Or will i...

2010-11-22T16:47:49.715+05:30

should try this after the semester ends. Or will it be available on updates by that time. :D may be. But at the time can't crash my lap because number of assignments are going on.

Cool... But somebody thinks otherwise http://www.w...

2010-11-22T16:29:46.783+05:30

Cool...
But somebody thinks otherwise
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html

Thanks @seejay and @කරුමක්කාරයා I shall try to w...

2010-11-22T16:08:22.522+05:30

Thanks @seejay and @කරුමක්කාරයා I shall *try* to write more technical articles. Don't consider this as me coming back as I never really left ;)

ah... Buds back... i'll try this ton8..can u w...

2010-11-22T14:39:30.565+05:30

ah... Buds back... i'll try this ton8..can u write sm article abt virtualization. ..

Hey, good to see you back on the blogsphere Bud. ...

2010-11-22T13:31:17.115+05:30

Hey, good to see you back on the blogsphere Bud.

Guess I'd better give the new patch a try now :)