Comment 12 for bug 516834

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 516834] Re: bad default swappiness for desktop systems

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:24 +0000, Pjotr12345 wrote:

> @ Scott James Remnant: this means that Ubuntu will remain almost
> unusable on systems with low RAM (384 MB and less) and slow on systems
> with 512 MB RAM. That's a pity.
>
> I respect the decision of the Ubuntu developers. However, maybe you
> could consider an init script lowering the swappiness, that only
> activates when RAM is 512 MB or less?
>
Again, this would be better done in kernel code.

I'm not objecting to adjusting the swappiness value - I'm simply stating
that this is a kernel issue and should be fixed in the kernel code.

Scott
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