hog

1. Favoured term to describe programs or hardware that seem to

eat far more than their share of a system's resources,

especially those which noticeably degrade interactive

response. *Not* used of programs that are simply extremely

large or complex or that are merely painfully slow themselves

(see pig, run like a). 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 file system, they typically find some other new one to

infect, claiming to the sysadmin that they have an important

new project to complete.