Well I've always read that on the N900 not to use the speed patch as it may cause issues with your system. Maybe because its unmaintained etc...


Technically it seems similar as fastern9 is a cgroups mod with i/o scheduler being tweaked too... The main difference I would say is the maintenance of the package. traysh does an excellent job of maintaining it with feedback incorporated into it. Also, there has been no reports of anybody's device being MALF'ed since a long time i.e. since pretty old development versions. Lastly, from what I understand speed patch makes across the board changes for foreground and background apps/services while traysh has a more refined implementation here whereby core apps are given certain priorities, not all background apps have lowered priorities etc...

Usage generally across the userbase varies and for some its possible they don't find fastern9 useful. What I would advice is not to install it on your fresh N9... Instead use your N9 for a week or two with the event feed having feeds to be updated, apps installed etc... After the week or two when you see the lag between scrolling in the 3 main screens, event feed, unresponsiveness while event feed is updating, you should then install FasterN9...

That way if the user experience improves for you it means that FasterN9 is suitable for you... Previous pretty old versions of it had bugs that had the ability to improve the user experience in general but in one or two areas to slow down things... However, traysh has very actively taken feedback on-board and improved it consistently... I would say once it hit the v0.9.7 mark it became a mod that is good without huge bugs and improves the UX for most users... With the latest unstable version too, I've only an issue with the mail app being slow while switching between folders but otherwise no issue; stable versions are slightly more conservative than unstable versions and are generally bug-free with a marked increase in performance...

This is one of those things you don't appreciate in full until you realize what you were missing all this while