The cache overflow mechanism used by WiredTiger is referred to as the "lookaside table", which isn't very meaningful to non-WiredTiger developers. The name was originally chosen in case we chose to store other content in the same place - it's not seeming likely that we will make that choice at the moment, so I think it would be worthwhile to change the name to something more descriptive.

If we don't change internal code names, I think we should at least re-word any statistics that refer to "lookaside".