Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
An example of thrashing: You're hauling a ton of live chickens in a van rated for a half-ton load; so you have to stop every block or so, get out and bang with a baseball bat on the side of the van, in order to keep at least half of the chickens airborne.RES (aka RSS) is actually extremely important: if the sum of all programs' RSS exceeds your RAM size, your system will thrash, and thrashing is not good.What does thrashing mean?