Resident set and working set of a process

What do you understand by the term resident set and working set of a process?

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Resident set is that portion of the process image which is really in real-memory at a particular instant. Working set is that set of resident set which is really needed for execution. (Or relate this to the variable-window size method for swapping methods.)

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