Thrashing is the term used to describe ________.
A) excessive paging activity causing low processor utilization
B) what occurs when a disk receives many I/O requests
C) what occurs when a process references nonsequential pages in its address space
D) an unstable system

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Thrashing occurs when excessive paging activity leads to low processor utilization, as the system spends more time swapping pages in and out of memory rather than executing processes.

Thrashing Is the Term Used to Describe ________