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Kernel 2.6.31 to speed up Linux desktop

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“The kernel developers have been working on improvements to
desktop interactivity, particularly when it’s under memory pressure
since the last release, version 2.6.30, in June.

“Desktop applications can experience long and noticeable pauses
when the application’s code path jumps to a part of the code that
is not cached in memory and needs to be read from the disk, which
is slower.”


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