https://sparsenotes.com/tags/scheduling/ Recent content in scheduling on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/10/papers/working-set-model-denning-1968/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/10/papers/working-set-model-denning-1968/ Seminal paper of the week: Peter Denning defined a program's working set as the pages it used in its last τ units of execution time, and argued the OS should only run programs whose working sets fit in memory. That rule is how operating systems stopped thrashing, and Linux and Windows still use the idea today.