When an operating system spends much of its time paging, rather than executing application software, it is said to be in a state of _______.
- Booting
- Fragmentation
- Multitasking
- Thrashing
'Thrashing' occurs in an operating system when it spends a significant amount of time swapping data between RAM and secondary storage due to excessive paging. This can severely degrade system performance and is an undesirable state.
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