linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

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Message-ID: <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:58:19 -0400
From:	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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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