# overhead

> any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to perform a specific task

**Wikidata**: [Q2006368](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2006368)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_(computing))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/overhead-q2006368


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013