spooling
English edit
Verb edit
spooling
- present participle and gerund of spool
Noun edit
spooling (plural spoolings)
- (computing) The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool.
- 1998, Ashish Gupta, Oded Shmueli, Jennifer Widom, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Conference on Very Large Databases:
- Hence, if a query is parallelized correctly it can benefit also from parallel I/O facilities and from the increased database cache that can reduce disk spoolings.