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  1. Bug #500069
  2. Comment #642

Comment 642 for bug 500069

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In , sgh (sgh-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

devsk: Yeah, but shouldn't those knobs be to squeeze the most out of your system? The defaults should be set in a way that is not destructive.

fx.

swappiness = 0 - 10
 or
dirty_ratio = 10

or a combination of both or some other settings.

People will experience trouble with the default settings anyway, so reports like "high troughput disk writes is slow" is certainly a lot better than "high troughput disk write locks my machine".

What is the best fist steps to solving this:
1. Changing defaults on existing knobs?
2. Change the kernel code?