From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 10 of 10 v3] Some automatic NUMA placement documentation Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:26:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4FF6F5B0.5030705@eu.citrix.com> References: <4FF6F163.6010300@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FF6F163.6010300@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Dario Faggioli Cc: Andre Przywara , Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , Juergen Gross , Ian Jackson , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06/07/12 15:08, George Dunlap wrote: > On 04/07/12 17:18, Dario Faggioli wrote: >> +that have the biggest amounts of free memory helps keeping the memory > We normally don't say "big amount", but "large amount" (don't ask me > why -- just sounds a bit funny to me). So this would be "largest amount". BTW, the rule as far as I can tell is this: * "big" can apply to countable things, physical or not; but can't apply to quantities. So "big cat", "big house", "big idea", and "big ego" are OK, but "big volume" or "big amount" are wrong. * "large" can apply to quantities, and to physical things, but not to non-physical things. So "large cat", "large house", "large volume", and "large amount" are all OK; but "large idea" and "large ego" are wrong. -George