What is Thrashing?

Answer Posted / sudhakar yadav

Thrashing is result of contiguous paging which happen again
and again.
reason behind thrashing is when page fault happening process
replace page from new process that will be use in future by
other process.
so cpu busy only in page in page out rather than execution
of the process.

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