RE: Need a word for...

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Why am I suddenly thinking about sliding-tile puzzles? 

 Peter Neilson [mailto:neilson -at- windstream -dot- net] responded:

> 
> Partially on the road to an answer... "Thrashing" is the term for the 
> situation in which a virtual-memory computer system (or one with some 
> similar memory management scheme) spends nearly all its time managing 
> memory (of which there is too little) and nearly none doing 
> useful work.
> 
> Indeed, my house is in a similar situation. The usual method for 
> cleaning things up is to move everything from one room into 
> another and 
> clean the one, throwing trash out in the process. It does not 
> work when 
> all the rooms are already full.
> 
> McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
>[...]
> > What would be a good generic word for the sort of condition 
> where something is being rapidly/frequently disconnected and 
> keeps dutifully coming back for more punishment?  I imagine 
> there's a common english word that engineers have co-opted 
> for such a situation - perhaps a two-word phrase at most.   
> It's not quite at the tip of my tongue - or my typing 
> fingers.  Bugs me no end. 




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