Thrashing used in a sentence

Thrashing in a sentence as a noun

One person said: while this is a classic, my snark is thrashing against its bonds.

He'll be distracted by the eel's thrashing about and start panicking about what to do9.

Then enjoy the server thrashing around 10K-100K visitors

Which is to say "you might not like senseless disk-thrashing but would you rather have your machine randomly freeze when it got out of memory?

I think it's less about not wanting to use Visual Studio and more about not wanting to have a Windows VM thrashing resources.

Except that the "new monopolist" is currently thrashing the "old monopolist".

Yet, very often, they ape Microsoft, Adobe, and company's spastic thrashing anyway.

Hey, I find the hard drive light very helpful in determining whether my system is thrashing for virtual memory, or likely stuck on some CPU-bound process.

Microsoft has a reputation for killing off development platforms when they start thrashing around seeking relevance in some new way.

While I was writing it, it definitely had a feeling to it of my viciously thrashing around an idea without actually getting to it.

Flash is ridiculous on OS X. It leaks memory like a sieve - I once left a few tabs open overnight with Flash ads and your various bits of Flash-based internet detritus, and by the time I woke up my machine was thrashing madly until I manually killed Flash.

So, instead of tackling something like auto-queuing of copy operations to prevent disk thrashing, they did the 'hard' work of adding a pause button and some silly bling.

Suppose your SQLite database is 20 MBevery write to that means 20 MB from the real database to your application and back, which means 20 MB of disk thrashing too. Guess how many users need to do this before your database is spending all day rewriting essentially unchanged bytes.

That was a deliberate choice, because not having segmented stacks makes many much more important things far faster, such as calling into C and performing tight sequential computations without thrashing on stack boundaries or using a garbage collector to move stacks around and rewrite all the pointers.