mol slower after distupgrade

[Tommy Trussell]

On 9/25/05, Joseph Jezak <josejx at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > I use debianppc unstable. 2 days ago i dist-upgraded, and
> > suddenly i noticed an huge slow-down on maconlinux.

> On Gentoo, the priority changes were causing performance problems with
> newer kernels.  To fix this, we applied this patch:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/mol-0.9.70-nopriority.patch
>
> It comments out the priority changes and helps quite a bit with the speed.

Is it possible to specify which kernel versions exhibit the problem?

I'm running Ubuntu and a kernel security update is pending... I
presume the update does not affect MOL but I would hate to have to
choose between a security patch and speedy MOL.