Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns
> "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 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?
On 03.11.06 11:58, Miles Bader wrote:
> In this case it means that the processes are trying to use more memory
> _actively_ than will fit in RAM, and you end up with a very high page
> fault rate, meaning your system spends much more time doing disk I/O
> to the swap area than it does actually computing.
AFAIK it's usually called 'swapping', I dunno why someone called it
'thrashing' :)
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