Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

[Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>]

2010/11/2 Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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.
>
Hmm, then, can't we add a sysctl template config/script for generic
sysctl values ?
Adding this kind of CONFIG one by one seems not very helpful...

Thanks,
-Kame

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