Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:36:21 +0100 | From | Jonathan Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] OOM handling |
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>> 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".
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