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Khanda: add some more kernel params to (hopefully) increase performance

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];
};
# Improve Khanda's responsiveness
kernel.sysctl = {
# Try to reduce swappiness - Khanda hates paging, even to NVMe storage
"vm.swappiness" = 20;
"vm.swappiness" = 20; # Try to reduce swappiness - Khanda hates paging, even to NVMe storage
"vm.vfs_cache_pressure" = 50; # https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sysctl#VFS_cache
"kernel.core_pattern" = "|${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/false"; # Disable core dumps per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_dump#Using_sysctl
};
kernelModules = [
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};
};
# Change I/O scheduler to Kyber to try and reduce stuttering under load.
# NVME supports `mq-deadline` and `kyber` schedulers
services.udev.extraRules = ''
ACTION=="add|change", KERNEL=="nvme0n1", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="kyber"
'';
hardware = {
cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
ipu6 = {