From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: 31 Jul 2001 09:30:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) Message-ID: <85vG$i31w-B@khms.westfalen.de> References: Subject: Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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". MfG Kai -- 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/