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spooling

spooling

English

Verb

spooling

present participle of spool

Noun

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.