Question 121

Thrashing in an operating system occurs when:

  1. AProcesses spend more time paging than executing
  2. BCPU utilisation is maximum
  3. CThere is no page fault
  4. DOnly one process is in memory
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Correct answer: (A) Processes spend more time paging than executing

Explanation

Very high page-fault activity keeps the system busy swapping pages.

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