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working set: a standalone construct

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the set of pages a process has referenced in a recent time window, used to decide how much memory it needs.

In operating systems, working set refers to the set of pages a process has referenced in a recent time window, used to decide how much memory it needs. This meaning comes from Denning (1968) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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memory6 fields · 18 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs process3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs window3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Denning, P. J. (1968). The working set model for program behavior. Communications of the ACM, 11(5), 323-333. https://doi.org/10.1145/363095.363141

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