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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:34:30 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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* Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >    echo 'kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1' >> /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> Thanks Ingo. It's called /etc/sysctl.d/* now:
> https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-etcsysctlconf/

That works too, on modern distros.

Thanks,

	Ingo