# thrashing

> phenomenon that when a computer's virtual memory subsystem is in a constant state of paging, rapidly exchanging data in memory for data on disk, to the exclusion of most application-level processing

**Wikidata**: [Q2067413](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2067413)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing_(computer_science))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/thrashing


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. KBpedia
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)