Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by givan on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:30AM (#14004138)

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Set vm.swappiness on install based on machine ram.

- DESCRIPTION: The difference in responsiveness can be remarkable if it's lowered on systems with more ram. Most laptops and pc's these days have 4gb on average but the ones with hdds will be very slow on ubuntu because of default vm.swappiness vm.dirty_ratio vm.dirty_background_ratio etc that are set for older machines. Adding this feature will make ubuntu a better experience for most nontechnical people.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by phoenix23 on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:46AM (#14012349)

Could this be set at boot time instead of install time? That way if RAM is added or removed (or if a DIMM goes bad) it will update automatically.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? by gustavodemari on Friday March 31, 2017 @11:49AM (#14004990)

+1, agreed!

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