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Thrashing

Virtual memory systems work most efficiently when the ratio of the working set to the total number of pages that can be stored in RAM is low enough to minimize the number of page faults. A program that works with huge data structures will sometimes require a working set that is too large to be efficiently managed by the page system resulting in constant page faults that drastically slow down the system. This condition is referred to as thrashing: pages are swapped out and then accessed causing frequent faults.

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC, where his work focuses on patent policy, standards, open source, and innovation policy.  He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, and a Lecturer at the University of Colorado. Kahin was founding Director of the Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1989-97).  He served as Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1997 to 2000, where he chaired the interagency working group on the digital economy. Kahin has edited ten books on Internet-related policy, including Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy (MIT Press 2006).

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