hog

   1. Favored term to describe programs or hardware that seem to eat far
   more  than  their  share  of  a  system's resources, esp. those which
   noticeably  degrade  interactive  response. Not used of programs that
   are  simply  extremely  large or complex or that are merely painfully
   slow  themselves. 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."

   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 filesystem, 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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {bring X to its knees}{busy-wait}{elephantine}{grind}]