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title: "Thrashing in OS"  
description: "Thrashing in OS"  
author: "Prakash nidhi Verma"  
published: 2018-06-23  
updated: 2020-09-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/23441/thrashing-in-os  
category: "education"  
tags: ["thread", "os run-time error"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Thrashing in OS

Thrashing is a computer activity that makes little or no progress like page fault and swapping. Usually, this happens either of limited resources of memory.It arises when a page fault occurs.Page fault occur when memory access of virtual memory space does not map to the content of RAM.

1.CPU becomes idle.

2.Decreasing the utilization increases the degree.

## Answers

### Answer by Prakash nidhi Verma

Thrashing is a computer activity that makes little or no progress like page fault and swapping. Usually, this happens either of limited resources of memory.It arises when a page fault occurs.Page fault occur when memory access of virtual memory space does not map to the content of RAM.

1.CPU becomes idle.

2.Decreasing the utilization increases the degree.


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