On 3/19/2019 1:17 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:59:24 -0700
Yes, it makes things fairly clear. They're useful on big machines and they're useful with VMs. Since I have a modest machine and never use VMs I question why my system is set to 'always' by default?
if not, feel free to ask more questions and I can try to answer them, though if you want me to respond more quickly, sending a copy directly to me would likely have me seeing it more quickly...
Feel free to modify the reply-to settings if you want personal replies.
The normal default used to be Reply-All, but I wouldn't want to have it sent just to me if someone is using reply-to-group -- neither would I want to change it to me in the case where they *didn't* want a quicker response, or primarily wanted to stand on a soapbox and address the group, not really wanting or needing a personal reply. Since you were the person who started the thread, I would submit that you more likely want to address the group and that you didn't need a faster response from me. FWIW, I agree with you -- setting it to always might be useful on a distro aimed at servers or larger memory machines, but on many desktops with 8-32GB, setting it to madvise would seem the wisest choice of action and most likely to cause least disruption. But like the scheduler settings for no-preempt, voluntary preempt, fully preemptable, it seems someone set them with some particular goal in mind other than causing least disruption. Like it was one of the "doers" who took the attitude of those who do make the rules. Unfortunately, it seems, rarely are such decisions "informed". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org