Quote Originally Posted by kraftman View Post
It probably can have different effects on different configurations. It solved some people problems with latency:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/10/229

I can't say a word about this, because my system is responsive in both cases.
Me niether really, since I didn't test anything.
I feel that my computer is responsive enough, but I guess it's a pain that I am used to.. (amd sempron 3400, nvidia 7600gt agp, 2.6.28, kde 4.3)