undersubscribing

Verb

undersubscribe (third-person singular simple present undersubscribes, present participle undersubscribing, simple past and past participle undersubscribed)

1. To subscribe to an extent that is far less than is available or desirable.
   • When only retail investors undersubscribe the offering, their demand is fully satisfied, but on average the IPO price is negatively revised (this revealing negative information collected on the market) and shares are not significantly underpriced.2013, Mario Levis, Silvio Vismara, Handbook of Research on IPOs, →ISBN, page 214
2. To have insufficient threads available in a multithreaded application so that all threads become blocked and performance suffers.
   • This forces the agent to either oversubscribe itself by submitting jobs to multiple queues at once or undersubscribe itself by submitting jobs to potentially long queues.2003, Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox, Tony Hey, Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, →ISBN, page 311
3. To employ more switch ports than necessary so that high-priority traffic is sure to be handled right away.
   • In this way, MSPs can have the flexibility to oversubscribe lower-priority classes or even undersubscribe higher-priority traffic to meet tight QoS/SLA requirements.2004, Nam-Kee Tan, MPLS for Metropolitan Area Networks, →ISBN, page 384