What is the meaning of "chewing the carpet"?

I was digging about Load-Balancers (computer networking stuff) and came across this expression: Sometimes it (Load-Balancer) sits down chewing the carpet while backends go idle ...

I guess "chewing the carpet" means wasting time here. Am I right? What exactly does it mean?

Solution 1:

Apparently not, as can be seen here:

Chew, or chewing, the carpet is not in the OED but it is in Jonathon Green's Dictionary of Slang. Green describes it as being US slang from the 1950s and defines it as 'to lose emotional control, to have a temper tantrum'.

I think it came from "carpet biting", which means:

One (usually male) who gets into a fearful rage, a visible very angry man;

This expression came from about Hitler getting into insane rages and biting the rug.

Solution 2:

Actually, according to John Toland’s biography of Hitler written in the 1980s, these incidents of chewing the edge of a carpet after a terrible yelling rage session by Hitler were witnessed by several of his inner circle and some of the High Command at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria.