I found this article very interesting while studying a bit more about the various pieces of information displayed by glances.<p>It neatly explains the differences between processes, threads, and context, and I learned about the fact that Linux has an extremely low cost of context switching and mode switching compared to other systems.<p>Yet, I'm still not sure what to do with this ctx_sw value from glances. Anyone using it? How can I define whether the number is too large? What actions should I then take? debugging the processes causing a large number of switches, rebooting, other?
I would love to hear from experienced linux users!