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hog
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n.,vt. 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far
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more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which noticeably
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degrade interactive response. Not used of programs that are simply extremely
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large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves. More often
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than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., memory hog , core hog , hog
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the processor , hog the disk. A controller that never gives up the I/O bus
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gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires. 2. Also said of people who use
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more than their fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems
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that 10% of the people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or
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how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem,
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they typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin
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that they have an important new project to complete.
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