From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:13:24 +0200 References: <85vG$i31w-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <85vG$i31w-B@khms.westfalen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01073116132401.00303@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Kai Henningsen , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tuesday 31 July 2001 09:30, Kai Henningsen wrote: > riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel) wrote on 29.07.01 in : > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > "Age" is hugely misleading, I think everybody agrees, > > > > Yup. I mainly kept it because we called things this way > > in the 1.2, 1.3, 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. > > > > > > That said, I think BSD uses "weight". > > > > > > That's much _much_ better: I'd go for "warmth" myself, > > > > FreeBSD uses act_count, short for activation count. > > > > Showing how active a page is is probably a better analogy > > than the temperature one ... but that's just IMHO ;) > > Well, people do sometimes speak of "hot" pages (or spots) ... and > there are no good verbs associated with "activation count". Oh, and > you might say "the situation heats up" in case of increasing memory > pressure. > > And remember that in physics, temperature (at least in the cases > where it's used by non-physicists) does measure something > approximately like average particle velocity, which some > (non-physicist) people might well call "activity". Temperature also captures the idea of gradual decay. Activity sounds fine too, both are way better than age. -- Daniel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/