On 11/1/06, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
Tim Post <tim.post@netkinetics.net> writes: > I'm not discounting the RES/SHR columns because they are indeed > interesting, but not entirely useful and as someone pointed out .. a bit > cryptic. 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?