thrashing
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- noun
- /ˈθræʃɪŋ/
- Specialized
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- The improvement can be attributed to the more efficient use of memory buses, avoidance of cache thrashing, and reduced microprocessor and microcode overhead for performing page move operations.
Examples
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And you know the thrashing is to be expected.
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The forward progress count is used to prevent thrashing between threads.
Academic text (2000) -
There was a lot of thrashing.
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And so that can cause disk thrashing, OK, where every access causes a disk access.
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Apart from the constant updating and disk thrashing, no problems.
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This can cause performance issues like disk thrashing and TLB misses.
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The journal I/O is inherently sequential, but what's left is still the data/journal thrashing I mentioned.
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Disk thrashing can severely impact system performance, making applications run much slower.
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When the computer is experiencing thrashing, it is spending too much time swapping data in and out of memory.
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The programmer recognized the signs of thrashing and optimized the memory usage to improve application speed.
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Etymology
The word thrashing in computing borrows the old sense of thresh, which meant 'to beat'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine the computer being 'beaten' by nonstop moving of memory in and out so it becomes very slow, which is why 'thrashing' means a severe slowdown.