[Bug 516834] Re: bad default swappiness for desktop systems

[Ben Gamari]

@Scott

I'm not certain I agree with your assertion that "this is a kernel issue
and should be fixed in the kernel code." There is no chance this change
will be taken upstream and there is a perfectly good usermode mechanism
for overriding this value (sysctl(8)). This is in fact exactly why this
value is exposed to user space. Given this, it seems strange to carry
such an unnecessary patch for eternity in our kernel tree.

Perhaps the right solution would be to drop a file in /etc/sysctl.d from
linux-image-generic?

- Ben

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bad default swappiness for desktop systems
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516834
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