Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Gamari <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:58:19 -0400 |
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote: > And they can't use an init script to tune /proc/sys/vm/swappiness > because...?
Packaging concerns, as I mentioned before,
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:52:30AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: > Ubuntu ships different kernels for desktop and server usage. From a > packaging standpoint it would be much nicer to have this set in the > kernel configuration. If we were to throw the setting /etc/sysctl.conf > the kernel would depend upon the package containing sysctl(8) > (procps). We'd rather avoid this and keep the default kernel > configuration in one place.
In short, being able to specify this default in .config is just far simpler from a packaging standpoint than the alternatives.
- Ben
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