Is there a computing notion of "thread explosion" where you start more threads to use idle processor capacity because existing threads are in wait state but then they all unpredictably go active and the pre-emption logic is bad so everything crashes?
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This sounds like "thrashing". Not perfectly analogous but near. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing
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Yeah I thought of that too. Thrashing might be a special case of what I'm getting at.

