Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput

Daniel Phillips
2001-07-31T14:13:24Z

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 09:30, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel) wrote on 29.07.01 in
<Pine.LNX.4.33L.0107292021480.11893-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>:
> > 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