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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

[heavily inspired by lwn​.net thread, particularly, by this]

/etc/sysctl.conf:

kernel.sched_latency_ns = 2000000
kernel.sched_wakeup_granularity_ns = 4000000
kernel.sched_min_granularity_ns = 1000000

/etc/rc.local (temporarily), requires debugfs mounted:

echo "NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS" > /sys/kernel/debug/sched_features

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Guardian: “12 years of vile laws attacking our liberty”

Monday, September 14th, 2009

It takes 100 years or more for some species of tree to grow to full size but a few minutes to cut them down. The roots may live and sprout but the tree never grows back in quite the same way again. The question that faces the British electorate in the next eight months or so is whether the same applies to the conventions of liberty, trust and privacy which have been felled by Labour’s chainsaw. Is the damage irreversible or can the opposition parties muster the leadership and will to guarantee a restoration of all that has been lost in the last 12 years?

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