--- zzzz-none-000/linux-2.6.13.1/mm/pdflush.c 2005-09-10 02:42:58.000000000 +0000 +++ ohio-7170-487/linux-2.6.13.1/mm/pdflush.c 2006-06-09 13:32:28.000000000 +0000 @@ -175,7 +175,13 @@ * pdflush can spend a lot of time doing encryption via dm-crypt. We * don't want to do that at keventd's priority. */ - set_user_nice(current, 0); + + /* <<<< 20060608 =OS= + * + * set_user_nice(current, 0); + * + * ... because we do not use crypto filesystems. :-) + */ return __pdflush(&my_work); }