thrashing
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phenomenon that when a computer's virtual memory subsystem is in a constant state of paging, rapidly exchanging data in memory for data on disk, to the exclusion of most application-level processing
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- condition
- Subclass of
- failure
- Part of
- memory management
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- has cause
- thin provisioning
- afflicts
- cache
- has immediate cause
- page fault
- facet of
- working set
- has effect
- hang
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