That was it. A similar discussion was covered a couple weeks ago, in , in which a user asked for a particular patch to be included, and Alan explained that it was the maintainer's place to submit it when it was ready. Reports of this problem were first covered in , and showed some improvement in . This week, Matthew Vanecek complained that although plenty of folks were talking about how 'kswapd' was broken, he couldn't find any patches to fix it. I can start up a gimp while bonnie is running without having much impact on the speed of either.
Interactive performance is nice and stability seems to be great as well.
I'll test it on my 512MB test machine as well and will have more test results tomorrow. End of thread. They have the docs from yamaha on their site as well. But Adam didn't want to bother trying to run binary drivers on development kernels. He had no problem running binary user-space software, but binary drivers, no.