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Questions tagged [thrashing]

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How to kill tasks in Windows 7 when even Task Manager won't open or respond?

Occasionally one of my computers will get so bogged down that everything locks up, Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't work, Task Manager won't open, or they work, but are opening so slowly that it will take hours or days to shut down other processes and regain…
endolith
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Linux without swap still starts thrashing

Debian 9.4, Linux 4.9 I sometimes compile something that hardly fits in the RAM, or a rouge process suddenly starts eating memory beyond what's available. When the process goes past the available RAM, Linux starts thrashing the disk even though I…
attila lendvai
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How to detect thrashing on an SSD-equipped Windows system?

With spinning hard disks it was relatively common to hear disk thrashing when some process, Windows or otherwise, was making a bad fist of things. Quite often this was an indicator that a process was in need of attention so became a bit of a canary…
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Would SSD improve thrashing?

I understand thrashing (computer's virtual memory subsystem in a constant state of paging) is basically problem of not enough memory. But besides adding more RAM, would adding a SSD to a HDD or replacing HDD with a SSD help with thrashing?
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How is it possible that a disk has 100% of active time but 0 KB/s of read speed and 0 KB/s of write speed?

I've noticed a disk that has 100% of active time but 0 KB/s of read speed and 0 KB/s of write speed according to Windows Task Manager: How is it possible that a disk has 100% of active time but 0 KB/s of read speed and 0 KB/s of write speed? I…
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Which processes are accessing CD/DVD drive?

I'm trying to install StarCraft 1 on my Windows 7 machine, but it's taking forever and it sounds like the DVD drive is thrashing. Is there any way to see which processes are reading from the DVD drive? It doesn't look like Resource Monitor provides…
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If a thread is just another process, how does it reduce the CPU’s workload and handle thrashing?

What does it mean when they say that a thread is a light-weight process? If it's just another process, how does it reduce the CPU's workload?
Vimugdh Lall
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