What is Thrashing?

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What is Thrashing?

written 7.7 years ago by

teamques10 ★ 70k

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Subject: Operating System

Topic: MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Difficulty: Hard

operating systems

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written 7.7 years ago by

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Thrashing is term referred to a high paging activity. A process is thrashing if it is spending more of its time paging than actually executing.

Consider a process that currently needs some more frames. Currently all the frames are occupied. So it will have to swap with certain pages; however …

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