Modern operating systems
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Thrashing is an unstable collapse of throughput of a system of communicating servers, such as disk drives and CPUs, as the load is increased. It occurs when the heavy load shifts the bottleneck from a high-throughput to a low-throughput server. It violates the intuition that leads observers to expect throughput to increase smoothly toward a saturation level as load increases.