As soon as I read your post, I remembered that they took out physical swap. I am curious though - I know address spaces still get swapped out - how does that happen without a physical swap? I used to know that at one time, but I can't remember.
Eric ---- Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Bielefeld wrote: > > Actually, as others have pointed out, swap datasets are pretty much dead. > > The paging algorithms have been changed to efficiently swap to the regular > > page datasets. > > This is not what was done! The concept of "physical swap" was removed > entirely. The operating system no longer performs that function. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Aviva USA Des Moines, Iowa 515-645-5153 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

