oversubscription
oversubscription noun: a subscription for more than is available.
Noun
oversubscription (countable and uncountable, plural oversubscriptions)
- A subscription for more than is available.
- A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked.
- This paper explores thread oversubscription, i.e., provisioning more threads than the available cores, to exploit CPU elasticity in the cloud.2021, Hang Huang, Jia Rao, Song Wu, Hai Jin, Hong Jiang, “Towards Exploiting CPU Elasticity via Efficient Thread Oversubscription”, in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on...
- The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network.
- You can overcome the oversubscription of an ISL by adding an ISL between the switches to increase the bandwidth.2018, Jon Tate, Pall Beck, Hector Hugo Ibarra, Introduction to Storage Area Networks, page 171
Forms of oversubscription
| plural | oversubscriptions |
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Origin of oversubscription
From over- + subscription.
Questions about oversubscription
- What does oversubscription mean?
- Oversubscription means a subscription for more than is available.
- What part of speech is oversubscription?
- Oversubscription is a noun.
- What is the plural of oversubscription?
- The plural of oversubscription is oversubscriptions.
Words near oversubscription in the dictionary
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