Thrash (computer science) - Definition and Overview
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To thrash is to move about violently.
In computer architecture, the term refers to poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system, when the same pages are being loaded repeatedly due to a lack of main memory to keep them in memory. Depending on the configuration and algorithm, the real throughput of a system can degrade by one or two orders of magnitude.
In software testing, thrashing means to extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
Reference
P. J. Denning. 1968. Thrashing: Its Causes and Prevention. Proceedings AFIPS,1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, vol. 33, pp. 915-922.
Example Usage of (computer
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