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thrash
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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vi. 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 computation)
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and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps changing his mind (esp.
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about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically
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trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on
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any single task) may also be described as thrashing. Compare multitask.
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