Re: [PATCH] Add Kconfig option for default swappiness

[Ben Gamari]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:33:10 -0700 (PDT), David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> 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

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