meaning of overrun
1. of Overrun
2. To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
3. To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
4. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
5. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
6. To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
7. To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
8. To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
9. To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
10. overrun 1. A frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, especially in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 milliseconds to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost. 2. Also applied to non-serial-I/O communications. "I forgot to pay my electric bill due to mail overrun. " "Sorry, I got four phone calls in 3 minutes last night and lost your message to overrun. " When thrashing at tasks, the next person to make a request might be told "Overrun!" Compare firehose syndrome. 3. More loosely, may refer to a buffer overflow not necessarily related to processing time as in overrun screw. [Jargon File] overrun screw A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array C implementations typically have no checks for this error. This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
11. too much production or more than expected
Related Words
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