Thrashing in an operating system is caused by:

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Thrashing in an operating system is caused by:

  1. A.

    Excessive CPU scheduling

  2. B.

    Excessive paging activity

  3. C.

    Low interrupt rate

  4. D.

    Deadlock detection

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Correct answer: B

Thrashing occurs when the system spends excessive time paging between memory and disk instead of executing useful work.

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