Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Gamari <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness | Date | Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:40:52 -0400 |
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take > the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely > continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us > for things like this is moot. > Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise.
> Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our > default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs > that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions > the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default, > why isn't the kernel setting it? > This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy.
- Ben
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