frequently consists of a relatively small fraction of a
process's total virtual memory pages. While a process's
run without
page faults. If the working set is too large
for available physical memory, the process causes frequent
In a
multitasking environment, information about which pages
are in each process's working set allows the memory management
["Modern Operating Systems", Andrew S. Tanenbaum, pub.
Prentice Hall, Inc. 1992].
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