• In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant...
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  • Look up thrashing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term thrashing may refer to: Thrashing (computer science), an effect of computer memory contention...
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  • thrash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Thrash may refer to: Thrashing (computer science), where increasing resources are used to do a decreasing amount...
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    certain amount of time, or the processing outcome may be inconsistent or thrashing may occur. However, the inability to enforce preemption may interfere...
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    situation where the computer spends more time moving data from RAM to disk and back than it does accomplishing tasks; this is known as thrashing. Protected memory...
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    Peter J. Denning (category American computer science educators)
    "Resource allocation in multiprocess computer systems", introduced seminal ideas in working sets, locality, thrashing, and system balance. At Princeton University...
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  • This glossary of computer hardware terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to computer hardware, i.e. the physical and structural...
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  • Working set is a concept in computer science which defines the amount of memory that a process requires in a given time interval. Peter Denning (1968)...
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    Random-access memory (RAM; /ræm/) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data...
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    Virtual memory (category Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester)
    paging and page stealing are used, a problem called "thrashing" can occur, in which the computer spends an unsuitably large amount of time transferring...
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  • In computer science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in a way that...
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  • typically cannot run) or severe performance degradation, such as due to thrashing (if a working set does not fit into memory and requires frequent paging...
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  • In computer science, resource contention is a conflict over access to a shared resource such as random access memory, disk storage, cache memory, internal...
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    interfere with each other and cause system failures (e.g., deadlock or thrashing). The operating system may also provide mechanisms for inter-process communication...
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  • In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This...
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    Gerrit Blaauw (category Dutch computer scientists)
    Ferranti Atlas Computer was a seminal platform for paging research, but suffered from well-studied performance issues such as thrashing. Virtual memory...
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  • causing the computer to run out of memory. In low memory conditions, the computer usually functions slower due to intense swapping and thrashing. When this...
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  • to "stick" in the cache, and helps prevent thrashing. BRRIP degrades performance, however, on non-thrashing accesses. SRRIP performs best when the working...
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  • Locality of reference (category Computer memory)
    In computer science, locality of reference, also known as the principle of locality, is the tendency of a processor to access the same set of memory locations...
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  • loops". Infinite loops are one possible cause for a computer hanging or freezing; others include thrashing, deadlock, and access violations. Looping is repeating...
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  • Gog (film) (category 1950s science fiction films)
    tubes. The now-crippled robot begins spinning back and forth, its arms thrashing about wildly. At that point, Gog suddenly comes to a halt, its metal arms...
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  • front half was constructed and visible, while a puppeteer performed its thrashing movements from behind. Therizinosaurus is introduced in Jurassic World...
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  • between the clump of inodes and the data blocks they referred to caused thrashing. Marshall Kirk McKusick, then a Berkeley graduate student, optimized the...
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  • The Thing (video game) (category Computer Artworks games)
    squad-based third-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Computer Artworks and co-published by Vivendi Universal Games under the Black Label...
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  • In computer science, threaded code is a programming technique where the code has a form that essentially consists entirely of calls to subroutines. It...
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    Tomchak, Anne-Marie (July 9, 2014). "#BBCtrending: Brazil's World Cup thrashing breaks Twitter records". BBC. Retrieved July 9, 2014. "Fastest time to...
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  • Xenomorph (category Science fiction film characters)
    tail strong enough to cause grievous injury; at one point, a violently thrashing Neomorph tail is seen to instantly remove a human jaw. This behavior is...
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    relocation hardware", Proc. AFIPS Computer Conference 30 (Spring Joint Computer Conference, 1967), pp. 611–621 – thrashing on IBM M44/44X L.W. Comeau, "Operating...
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  • machines was not good enough and that thrashing could severely reduce the speed of virtual memory systems. Thrashing is a condition in which the system runs...
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  • the scent. / Narrator: Below a creature heads toward the dark woods, a thrashing sack slung over its massive shoulder. Looking Glass Studios (1992). Ultima...
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