From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:52:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739rlnr3l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101101124322.GG840@cmpxchg.org>
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:43:22 -0400, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.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. This was just an RFC though; let me know if
you think this is totally insane.
- Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-01 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-31 18:08 [RFC PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness Ben Gamari
2010-11-01 12:43 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-11-01 12:52 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2010-11-01 20:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-11-01 20:09 ` Jesper Juhl
2010-11-01 20:41 ` Ben Gamari
2010-11-02 1:04 ` Wu Fengguang
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