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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hog</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="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hoarding.html" title="hoarding"/><link rel="next" href="hole.html" title="hole"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hog</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hoarding.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hole.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hog"/><dt xmlns="" id="hog"><b>hog</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat
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far more than their share of a system's resources, esp. those which
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noticeably degrade interactive response. <span class="emphasis"><em>Not</em></span> used of
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programs that are simply extremely large or complex or that are merely
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painfully slow themselves. More often than not encountered in qualified
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forms, e.g., <span class="firstterm">memory hog</span>, <span class="firstterm">core hog</span>, <span class="firstterm">hog the
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processor</span>, <span class="firstterm">hog the disk</span>.
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“<span class="quote">A controller that never gives up the I/O bus gets killed after the
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bus-hog timer expires.</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Also said of <span class="emphasis"><em>people</em></span> who use more than their
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fair share of resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
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people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or how many
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people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up one filesystem, they
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typically find some other new one to infect, claiming to the sysadmin that
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they have an important new project to complete.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hoarding.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hole.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hoarding </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hole</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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