Can someone please explain to me the differences between the terms in the title of the thread as pertaining to the actual amount of RAM that a process uses? I have been running ProcessExplorer, and I can't figure this out. Using google I came across this page, where someone asks the same question, but it was no help, I am still confused.

I am asking this pertaining to this screen-shot:

http://imgur.com/QY6x9.png

---

Can someone please explain to me the differences between the terms in the title of the thread as pertaining to the actual amount of RAM that a process uses? I have been running ProcessExplorer, and I can't figure this out. Using google I came across this page, where someone asks the same question, but it was no help, I am still confused.

I am asking this pertaining to this screen-shot:

http://imgur.com/QY6x9.png

Generally it's only important to know what these values are if you are a developer, but this should explain most of what you want to know.

http://shsc.info/WindowsMemoryManagement

TaskManager can display all this data for you as well.

---

SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[

Can someone please explain to me the differences between the terms in the title of the thread as pertaining to the actual amount of RAM that a process uses? I have been running ProcessExplorer, and I can't figure this out. Using google I came across this page, where someone asks the same question, but it was no help, I am still confused.

I am asking this pertaining to this screen-shot:

http://imgur.com/QY6x9.png

Generally it's only important to know what these values are if you are a developer, but this should explain most of what you want to know.

http://shsc.info/WindowsMemoryManagement

TaskManager can display all this data for you as well.

I am fairly the author of that article is confused about the meaning of "working set". The working set is the code and data that your computer has used recently, and is assumed will use again in the near future. If the sum of the working set sizes approaches physical RAM, the computer will start to thrash as working sets start to reside on disk instead of in RAM.

---

BOINC WIKI