technician is dispatched to troubleshoot a user's computer. After performing diagnostics, the technician determines that drive thrashing is occurring. What are the factors that can affect this?

Factors that can affect drive thrashing are;

The computer memory modules

Hard drives

Running processes

Paging file  

Explanation:

Drive thrashing also known as disk thrashing occurs due to over stressing the hard drives by moving data from the from virtual memory,(paging file) to system memory,(RAM) and back again such that the memory becomes exhausted resulting in slow performance or system halting.

Factors that can affect drive thrashing are the computer memory modules, hard drives, running processes, and paging file  

When thrashing occurs, the computer performance is slowed down or halts as the hard drives resources has reached close to capacity.