On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Colin Walters (walters(a)verbum.org) said:
> >
http://rudd-o.com/en/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenesslan...
> >
> > What is you comment?
>
> I think if someone proposed a patch which tweaked some kernel
> parameters as part of the desktop kickstart, it'd be reasonable to
> consider. I'd definitely agree with him that the default desktop
> installation should be tuned for responsiveness over throughput.
Well, we could just turn off swap entirely, which obviates the issue
(at the expense of other issues.)
merge the swap prefetch patch (upstream)