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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of quiesce.

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Examples

  • The two theories, one that she was amusing herself with him, and the other that he was just playing with her, divided public opinion, but they did not molest either of the parties to the mystery; and the village, after a season of acute conjecture, quiesced into that sarcastic sufferance of the anomaly into which it may have been noticed that small communities are apt to subside from such occasions.

    Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878

  • Stop making changes to the new article in the Publisher Note that table should be quiesced to all changes while the data is being copied out from the publisher and until the table is added to the publication with sp_addarticle

    Site Home ReplTalk 2011

  • The respective Xeon and Power7 chips allow the clock speeds on some cores to be bumped up as other cores are quiesced.

    The Register Team Register 2010

  • As Dmitry noted, if it's possible to use quiescence for hot-plugging then it's not unreasonable to think that both the bus and processors are completely quiesced with no pending stores languishing in store buffers, which is precisely the behavior in which we're interested.

    Planet Sun 2010

  • As Dmitry noted, if it's possible to use quiescence for hot-plugging then it's not unreasonable to think that both the bus and processors are completely quiesced with no pending stores languishing in store buffers, which is precisely the behavior in which we're interested.

    Sun Bloggers 2010

  • This is similar to the need for these applications to be quiesced during backups to prevent "fuzzy backups" from occurring.

    LinuxInsider Brace Rennels 2010

  • Nasser also confirmed that the Westmere-EP chips will support Turbo Boost, which allows for the clock speed of the processor cores to be jacked up a bit as other elements of the chip are quiesced.

    Channel Register 2010

  • Their data will still be backed up, but it will be captured in an in-use state rather than a quiesced state.

    2BakSa.Net 2009

  • The effect of this is that the specified writers will not be quiesced by VSS.

    2BakSa.Net 2009

  • "Creating a quiesced snapshot failed because the (user-supplied) custom pre-freeze script in the virtual machine exited with a non-zero return code".

    blogs.conchango.com Gregg Robertson 2008

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