On 11/2/06, Russell L. Harris <rlharris@oplink.net> wrote:
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> 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? 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.
funny stuff. I once experimented with the system limits: opened dozens of Gimp instances and it slowed the PC like hell, such that it was unusable, and then the kernel started murdering those Gimps.