Comment # 18 on bug 1107617 from Franck Bui

(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #16)
> 
> What a silly move of upstream. The very same guy has reviewed my locking
> patch, so he should be at least remotely aware that being "CPU-hungry" is
> not the issue.
> But well, he's looking at what's happening on his laptop. This is how
> upstream works, right? "It's fine on my laptop, so what are those 32TB-RAM
> people lamenting about?"
> 
>

Well I wouldn't be as categorical because as you know it's pretty hard to find
a good value that would please all setups. And 8 doesn't seem too bad for
desktops.

But given that the rational of the commit message is not really convincing, I
would say that it was not considered thoroughly.

That said I'm wondering if we shouldn't make the default value configurable at
compile time so at least servers would use a lower value (let's say 2) than
desktop (8) by default. This way we would let TW and such follows what upstream
does while SLE distros will always keep a more conservative value.