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What is 'thrashing' in the context of an operating system's memory management?

A A technique used to speed up process scheduling decisions
B A condition of excessive paging activity that severely degrades overall system performance
C A method of allocating contiguous blocks of memory to processes
D An algorithm used to detect and recover from deadlocks
E A CPU scheduling technique that prioritizes I/O-bound processes
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