On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:11:45PM -0000, Lukas Märdian wrote:
> >> systemd should drop its setting to defer to the file that we have been
> >> carrying in procps for a very long time.
> > at some point it would be a better idea to drop the procps files and
> > adjust the systemd defaults where/if needed. The sysctl configuration
> > hasn't been applied by procps since upstart; with systemd, the
> > systemd-sysctl service is what applies all the sysctl settings.
> We discussed this possibility during the Foundation team's meeting. But
> Steve wants to keep the policy in procps, as it has been in the past.
That's my current preference; but regardless, any moving of this to systemd
would need to handle a proper migration of the config files on upgrade,
which has not been done here today.
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:11:45PM -0000, Lukas Märdian wrote:
> >> systemd should drop its setting to defer to the file that we have been
> >> carrying in procps for a very long time.
> > at some point it would be a better idea to drop the procps files and
> > adjust the systemd defaults where/if needed. The sysctl configuration
> > hasn't been applied by procps since upstart; with systemd, the
> > systemd-sysctl service is what applies all the sysctl settings.
> We discussed this possibility during the Foundation team's meeting. But
> Steve wants to keep the policy in procps, as it has been in the past.
That's my current preference; but regardless, any moving of this to systemd
would need to handle a proper migration of the config files on upgrade,
which has not been done here today.