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In computer science, there is a memory leak, and all the available memory has been reserved, and part of the hard drive is used as virtual memory, and the computer is exchanging data between memory and disk as fast as it can. At this point cpu utilization is usually very low, as Hard disk read/write times are slowed down by the physical movement of a read/write head.

Caused by memory leaks or insufficient memory for an application.

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