undersubscribe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To have insufficient threads available in a multithreaded application so that all threads become blocked and performance suffers.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In all, our conceptual discussion suggests that firms may tend to undersubscribe to private industrial services, opening the way for government intervention."
- "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."
- "First, the number of available hardware threads varies from platform to platform, so the ideal number of threads on one machine may undersubscribe or oversubscribe the threads on a different machine."
- "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."