Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

[Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:33:59 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> Not sure why I was cc'd on this, but at least for Fedora, we still take
> the 'one kernel to rule them all' approach for every spin (and will likely
> continue to do so to maximise coverage testing) so a config option for us
> for things like this is moot.
> 
Just didn't want to miss anyone important. Sorry for the noise.

> Whenever I've tried to push changes to our defaults through to our
> default /etc/sysctl.conf, it's been met with resistance due to beliefs
> that a) the file is there for _users_ to override decisions
> the distro made at build time and b) if this is the right default,
> why isn't the kernel setting it?
>
This seems to be the consensus within the Ubuntu community as well. I
don't have any strong opinion either way but I will admit that setting
it in userspace does make the packaging issue messy.

- Ben

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