diff --git a/docs/jargon-org.txt b/docs/jargon-org.txt index 6e18929..0706718 100644 --- a/docs/jargon-org.txt +++ b/docs/jargon-org.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 05:07PM UTC +This file last generated Tuesday, 16 October 2018 05:14PM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -7938,6 +7938,9 @@ n. Syn. Vulcan nerve pinch. *** thumb n. The slider on a window-system scrollbar. So called because moving it allows you to browse through the contents of a text window in a way analogous to thumbing through a book. +*** thumb drive +Flash storage drive about the size of your thumb and typically interfaced via USB. Superceded the floppy disk or CD-ROM as a way of sneakernetting data around. + *** thundering herd problem Scheduler thrashing. This can happen under Unix when you have a number of processes that are waiting on a single event. When that event (a connection to the web server, say) happens, every process which could possibly handle the event is awakened. In the end, only one of those processes will actually be able to do the work, but, in the meantime, all the others wake up and contend for CPU time before being put back to sleep. Thus the system thrashes briefly while a herd of processes thunders through. If this starts to happen many times per second, the performance impact can be significant. diff --git a/docs/jargon.1.gz b/docs/jargon.1.gz index 9230c69..0d7479c 100644 Binary files a/docs/jargon.1.gz and b/docs/jargon.1.gz differ diff --git a/docs/jargon.html b/docs/jargon.html index db5015b..e453303 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.html +++ b/docs/jargon.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Free Documentation License".

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Glossary

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n. The slider on a window-system scrollbar. So called because moving it allows you to browse through the contents of a text window in a way analogous to thumbing through a book.

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thumb drive

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+ Flash storage drive about the size of your thumb and typically interfaced via USB. Superceded the floppy disk or CD-ROM as a way of sneakernetting data around. +

thundering herd problem

Scheduler thrashing. This can happen under Unix when you have a number of processes that are waiting on a single event. When that event (a connection to the web server, say) happens, every process which could possibly handle the event is awakened. In the end, only one of those processes will actually be able to do the work, but, in the meantime, all the others wake up and contend for CPU time before being put back to sleep. Thus the system thrashes briefly while a herd of processes thunders through. If this starts to happen many times per second, the performance impact can be significant. diff --git a/entries/thumb_drive.txt b/entries/thumb_drive.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c94d26 --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/thumb_drive.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +thumb drive + +Flash storage drive about the size of your thumb and typically interfaced via +USB. Superceded the floppy disk or CD-ROM as a way of sneakernetting data +around. \ No newline at end of file