Talk:Working set
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This description differs significantly from the usage of the term described in The Working Set Model for Program Behavior (see this page for a free overview).
- Programmer's view of WS: the smallest collection of information that must be in memory to execute her program efficiently
- System's view of WS: the set of most recently referenced pages
That is, the above-mentioned paper, in which (as far as I am aware), P.J. Denning coined the term working set, says that it is the memory the process needs to execute efficiently, while the WP article says the working set is the amount of memory that the process actually gets. Aragorn2 20:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
