buffer underrun — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A state occurring when a buffer used to communicate between two devices or processes is fed with data at a lower speed than the data is being read from it.

   Sinonimi

   buffer underflow

   Parole correlate

   buffer overrun

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   One problem with on-the-fly copying is that you risk buffer underrun, which occurs when the CD or DVD drive doing the burning doesn't receive a continuous stream of data.