What is Thrashing?

Answer Posted / aanchal

if the number of frames allocated to a low priority process falls bellow minimum number required by the computer architecture ,we must suspend the process execution.we should then page out its remaining pages,freeing all its allocates frames.this high paging activity is called thrashing......

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