Question

What is the "Thrashing" phenomenon in virtual memory systems?

• A. High CPU utilization due to heavy process loads.
• B. Excessive paging activity where the system spends more time swapping than executing.
• C. Frequent disk crashes due to high read/write speeds.
• D. Corruption of the page table by a malicious process.

Hint:

Thrashing is the result of a "positive feedback loop" gone wrong. The system works harder to fix a problem (low CPU utilization) but the action taken (adding more processes) actually worsens the root cause (lack of memory frames).

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B