hog

n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far
more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably
degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that are simply extremely
large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves. More often
than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., memory hog , core hog , hog
the processor , hog the disk. A controller that never gives up the I/O bus
gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires. 2. Also said of people who use
more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems
that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or
how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem,
they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin
that they have an important new project to complete.

