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

[Robert Persson]

Jeremy, I think your decision to close this bug was ill-judged. It is
only a month since you asked me to test whether the bug continues in
Lucid. What this adds up to is that I was given a month to do a
distribution upgrade or the bug would not be dealt with. A distribution
upgrade is a big deal and there are good reasons why sometimes people
may not want to rush into it (in my case it was a combination of worry
(based on experience) about breaking drivers and applications, with lack
of a decent Internet connection). You could just as easily have got you
answer by opening a terminal in Lucid and typing "cat
/proc/sys/vm/swappiness". It would have taken you less time than it took
to close the bug. Why didn't you do that? In fact when I finally did
upgrade to Lucid, I chose to keep whichever configuration file I altered
to get the swappiness right, so I wouldn't have been able to tell you
anything useful anyway.

You should already be aware that there has been disquiet in this
discussion about a perceived unwillingness to take this bug seriously,
or even to acknowledge that there is a problem at all. Closing the bug
so abruptly once again has not helped.

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