From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 323346B0172 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:58:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ywl5 with SMTP id 5so3862878ywl.14 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:58:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Gamari Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness In-Reply-To: References: <1288668052-32036-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:58:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87oca7evbo.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Wu Fengguang List-ID: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org