Meaning of undersubscription | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The subscription of significantly less than is available.
   countable, uncountable
2. The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.
   countable, uncountable
3. The failure to provide sufficient threads in a multithreaded application.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“There were no instances of undersubscriptions in SDL auctions of 28 states as against 18 such instances last year.”

“They may increase the size of the placing (green-shoe option) or decrease it in case of undersubscription.”

“Therefore, in the presence of an underwriter any risks associated with undersubscription are shifted from the company to the underwriter.”

“End-to-end QoS along with appropriate bandwidth provisioning specifically for Intra-Cluster Communication Signaling (ICCS) is required. Overprovisioning and undersubscription of bandwidth is recommended.”

“When there are not enough running threads to optimally exploit available PEs undersubscription occurs, resulting in a waste of performance.”

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