Question

What is thrashing and explain the methods to avoid thrashing

Answer 1

Answer:

In computer science, thrashing occurs when a computer's virtual memory resources are overused, leading to a constant state of paging and page faults, inhibiting most application-level processing. This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse.

To avoid thrashing, avoid nesting procedure calls wherever possible, minimize the number of concurrent tasks, and don't use jumps larger than the page size unless absolutely necessary.

Answer 2

Thrashing is a state in which the CPU performs 'productive' work less, and 'swapping' more.