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
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Eric Bielefeld
Systems Programmer
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