Meaning of undersubscribe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To subscribe to an extent that is far less than is available or desirable.
2. To have insufficient threads available in a multithreaded application so that all threads become blocked and performance suffers.
3. To employ more switch ports than necessary so that high-priority traffic is sure to be handled right away.

Examples

“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.”

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