From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3ABE132F.E919F908@evision-ventures.com> References: <3ABDF8A6.7580BD7D@evision-ventures.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:36:21 +0100 From: Jonathan Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] OOM handling Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Martin Dalecki Cc: Rik van Riel , Alan Cox , "James A. Sutherland" , Guest section DW , Patrick O'Rourke , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> I didn't quite understand Martin's comments about "not normalised" - >> presumably this is some mathematical argument, but what does this actually >> mean? > >Not mathematics. It's from physics. Very trivial physics, basic scool >indeed. >If you try to calculate some weightning >factors which involve different units (in this case mostly seconds and >bits) >then you will have to make sure tha those units get factorized out. >Rik is just throwing the absolute values together... Understood - my Physics courses covered this as well, but not using the word "normalise". -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@cyberspace.org (not for attachments) big-mail: chromatix@penguinpowered.com uni-mail: j.d.morton@lancaster.ac.uk The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. Get VNC Server for Macintosh from http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS$/E/S dpu(!) s:- a20 C+++ UL++ P L+++ E W+ N- o? K? w--- O-- M++$ V? PS PE- Y+ PGP++ t- 5- X- R !tv b++ DI+++ D G e+ h+ r++ y+(*) -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/