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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>thrash</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="This-time--for-sure-.html" title="This time, for sure!"/><link rel="next" href="thread.html" title="thread"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">thrash</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="This-time--for-sure-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="thread.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="thrash"/><dt xmlns="" id="thrash"><b>thrash</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
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Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time
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moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful
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computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps changing
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his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A
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person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not
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spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as
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thrashing. Compare <a href="../M/multitask.html"><i class="glossterm">multitask</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="This-time--for-sure-.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="thread.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">This time, for sure!<21></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>thread</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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