History
The term server hog is colloquial rather than precisely delineated. The sensibility, if not the term itself, almost certainly dates back to the early years of time-sharing computer systems in the 1960s when it was common for a single institutional mainframe to control many interactive terminals. In such an environment server lag is acutely perceived. Furthermore, in many operating environments, scarce server resources such as CPU-seconds were often metered and charged against the account of the user running the program. An unintentional server hog could prove extremely costly in financial terms. These programs were often called run-away programs or endless loops.
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