| When referring to a computer,
thrashing or disk thrashing is a term used to describe when the hard disk
drive is being overworked by moving information
between the system
memory
and virtual
memory excessively. Thrashing is often caused when the system
does not have enough memory, the system swap file
is not properly configured, and/or too much is running on the
computer and it has low system resources.
When thrashing occurs, a user
will notice the computer hard
disk drive always working and a decrease in system performance.
Thrashing is bad on a hard disk drive because of the amount of work
the hard disk drive has to do and if is left unfixed will likely
cause an early failure
of the hard disk drive.
To resolve hard disk drive thrashing, a user can do any of the
below.
- Increase the amount of RAM in the
computer.
- Decrease the amount of programs being run on the computer.
- Adjust the size of the swap file.
Also see: Hard disk drive
definitions
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