hog: n.,vt. 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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