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THRASH [1 record]

Record 1 1998-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash.

CONT

Someone who keeps changing his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
DEF

Se déplacer sauvagement ou violemment, sans accomplir quoi que ce soit d'utile. Désigne les systèmes surchargés qui gaspillent leur temps à paginer ou permuter frénétiquement des données entre le disque et la mémoire centrale au lieu d'effectuer des calculs utiles.

OBS

Caractérise aussi quelqu'un qui passe son temps à changer d'avis sur la nature du travail qu'il doit entreprendre ou qui s'excite à vouloir exécuter un maximum de tâches à la fois sans toutefois passer suffisamment de temps sur chacune d'elles.

Spanish

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