The Cause and Treatment Strategy on Thrashing

Abstract

Producing in the multiprogramming systems of the demanding paging style ,thrashing is an extreme status coming from doing page replacement. Based on some research results, the cause of thrashing is discussed with describing the feature of it. A policy of "preventing first" is presented to hold on to refrain from the thrashing ,which sets forth the concrete method of preventing and ending the thrashing. Some relating conclusions are also fit for page replacements of the computer designing in other fields.