On Fri 13-05-16 16:11:04, One Thousand Gnomes wrote: > > It seems important to point out that Sebastian's patch does NOT change > > the default behavior. It merely creates a knob allowing one to override > > the default via Kconfig. > > > > +choice > > + prompt "Overcommit Mode" > > + default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS > > + depends on EXPERT > > Which is still completely pointless given that its a single sysctl value > set at early userspace time and most distributions ship with things like > sysctl and /etc/sysctl.conf > > We have a million other such knobs, putting them in kconfig just gets > silly.
Exactly my point from the very begining. Thanks for being so direct here. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs

