Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760018AbZC0Di2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757769AbZC0DiT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:38:19 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38865 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757623AbZC0DiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:38:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:36:55 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: David Rees Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 Message-ID: <20090327033654.GA21857@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , David Rees , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Jesper Krogh , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20090325183011.GN32307@mit.edu> <20090325220530.GR32307@mit.edu> <20090326171148.9bf8f1ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326174704.cd36bf7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326182519.d576d703.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <72dbd3150903261921k7cf728ebhf331e9965630be7e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72dbd3150903261921k7cf728ebhf331e9965630be7e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 21 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:21:08PM -0700, David Rees wrote: > * Mon Mar 23 2009 xx 2.6.29-2 > - Change default swappiness setting from 60 to 30. > > * Thu Mar 19 2009 xx 2.6.29-0.66.rc8.git4 > - Raise default vm dirty data limits from 5/10 to 10/20 percent. > > Why are the going in the kernel package instead of /etc/sysctl.conf? At least in part, because rpm sucks. If a user has editted /etc/sysctl.conf, upgrading the initscripts package won't change that file. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/