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The action of a computer component, usually a hard drive, that is doing a lot of work but not getting much done. Hard drive thrashing is often due to running out of physical memory, forcing your system to use the swap file as additional memory; but it can also be due to a hard drive that is badly fragmented. Also, if you're dancing around to Rob Zombie, you're probably thrashing!
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Thrash - Frank Dinger wrote in setting a benchmark connection speed of 28.8 kbit/s." ======= Just for info : Living in rural northern Scotland , BT=British Telecom has slappedDACS = Before ,I could access my ISP at 50.5 KBaud , now the access is consistently 31.2KBaud I now understand that since that is > 28.8 KBaud ,they have notresponded to my plea to remove DACS. I am stuck with 31.2 KB since the local telephone exchange is too faraway for ADSL.Oftel seems to have had you in mind !downloadhttp://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/eu_directives/2003/uso0703.pdf andread it eight times.Annex B"4. Oftel will consider that the Provider is providing functionalInternet access where it is able to demonstrate that it is making everyreasonable effort to ensure that lines achieve optimum performance,particularly where the enduser intends to use the line for Internetaccess."11. Oftel considers that where a line is fitted with a pair-gaindevice, such as DACS, the line is unlikely to achieve optimumperformance."13. If, having exhausted other options, the Provider needs to fitexisting lines with pair-gain systems or transfer a pair-gain system toanother line, it should ensure that this will not adversely affect anexisting user of narrowband access to the Internet."28. The Provider should establish appropriate management and businessprocesses to: � monitor the level of complaints from end-users onconnection speeds for Internet access and assess the underlying causes;� monitor the use of pair-gain systems within the network;� ensure that the impact of pair-gain systems upon Internet accessdecreases over time;"--Mike D
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