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Thrashing . . . . . . .

A. is a natural consequence of virtual memory systems

B. can always be avoided by swapping

C. always occurs on large computers

D. can be caused by poor paging algorithms

E. None of the above

Answer: Option D

Solution(By Examveda Team)

In computer science, thrashing occurs when a computer's virtual memory resources become saturated, leading to a constant state of paging, to the exclusion of most application-level processing. This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse.

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