What causes thrashing to occur?

Asked In Exam: BPSC TRE 3.0

Options

  • A. Excessive paging activity
  • B. Insufficient disk space
  • C. Hardware failures
  • D. More than one of the above
  • E. None of the above

Correct Answer (Detailed Explanation is Below)

A. Excessive paging activity

Detailed Explanation

Thrashing occurs when the system spends excessive time paging pages between physical memory and secondary storage instead of executing processes.