hog
1. a domesticated pig, esp a castrated male weighing more than 102 kg
2. US and Canadian any artiodactyl mammal of the family Suidae; pig
3. Nautical a stiff brush, for scraping a vessel's bottom
4. Nautical the amount or extent to which a vessel is hogged
5. Slang chiefly US a large powerful motorcycle
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hog
[häg] (agriculture)
A domestic swine.
(computer science)
A computer program that uses excessive computer resources, such as memory or processing power, or requires excessive time to execute.
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hog
(1)Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to
eat far more than their share of a system's resources,
especially those which noticeably degrade interactive
response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely
large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves
(see
pig, run like a). More often than not encountered in
qualified forms, e.g. "memory hog", "core hog", "hog the
processor", "hog the disk". "A controller that never gives up
the I/O bus gets killed after the bus-hog timer expires."
hog
(2)Also said of *people* who use more than their fair share of
resources (particularly disk, where it seems that 10% of the
people use 90% of the disk, no matter how big the disk is or
how many people use it). Of course, once disk hogs fill up
one file system, they typically find some other new one to
infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important
new project to complete.
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hog
A program that uses an excessive amount of computer resources, which is typically RAM but could have been storage with early computers. A hog may also be written poorly and take too long to execute. See program logic.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.