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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:23:25 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput
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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 ;)

regards,

Rik
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