Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10 of 10 v3] Some automatic NUMA placement documentation

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


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