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Message-ID: <20101101201420.GI840@cmpxchg.org> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:14:20 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> To: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:52:30AM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:43:22 -0400, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 02:08:28PM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: > > > This will allow distributions to tune this important vm parameter in a more > > > self-contained manner. > > > > What's wrong with sticking > > > > vm.swappiness = <your value> > > > > into the shipped /etc/sysctl.conf? > > 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. Fair point. Feel free to add my Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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