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Does anyone know anything about the fair scheduler patch?

Like, what exactly is it?
How do you do anything useful with it?

URL: http://www.surriel.com/patches/

This is what it says on the page you linked:

With this patch your system will not allow any user to monopolise the CPU by firing up a lot of CPU hogs, don't forget to enable CONFIG_FAIRSCHED

It apparently just helps prevent users from hogging every last bit of CPU (I assume better than what the stock kernel does). I browsed through the patch and it doesn't appear that there is any configuration (it's either on or off depending on if you enable it at compile time).

meh - for want of a better (or real) word...