drain
<jargon>
(IBM) To allow a system to complete the processing of its current work before the system becomes unavailable. E.g. draining a device before taking it off-line or telling a web server in a server farm not to accept any new requests but to finish processing any requests it has already accepted.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 2005-07-18
Nearby terms:
Dragon Book ♦ DRAGOON ♦ drain ♦ DRAM ♦ DRAM refresh ♦ Drawing eXchange Format
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