On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:17:30PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> That is a somewhat odd suggestion. It's a runtime tunable for a
> reason. No default will ever work for 100% of the cases Fedora may be
> used in.
Sure, when it *seems* that a certain value is likely to be right in the
(possibly vast) majority of case, doesn't it make sense for that to be
the default and let people tune differently when they have a specific
need?
Yes, but doing that across all of Fedora is pointless. What works for
the majority of Server users won't necessarily work for Cloud or
Workstation. Also, the end user's ability to even discover that it's
tunable varies greatly from one Edition to the next. One could expect
sysadmins knowing about this and changing the default on their Server
install. The Workstation end user may not be as low-level detail
aware and could just suffer with poor performance because they think
that's the only option.
> Rather than go through all the effort of making a decision
> for all of Fedora at the FESCo level, I would prefer the Workgroups
> look at what their target machine types are and come up with a default
> they would prefer to see. Then they can work on setting it at boot
> via an Edition specific setting.
I mean, that's fine too.
It's more realistic.
josh