what is swap-in and swap-out?
What is address space in MVS?
What is the size of the address space in KBs for 16 bit
address space?

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what is swap-in and swap-out? What is address space in MVS? What is the size of the address space ..

Answer / aniket bande

Swap-in and Swap-out is the tranfer of all valid pages
between auxilary storage to real storage and vice-versa.

Address space is the range of addresses in real storage.

The size of address space for 16 bit address space is 64kb

For s/370 the address space 21 bit- 16MB
For s370XA and EXA address space is 31 bit- 2GB

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what is swap-in and swap-out? What is address space in MVS? What is the size of the address space ..

Answer / ram

Address space in MVS is nothing but amount of virtual
storage seen by JOB. In MVS/ESA or ESA/XA it's 2GB

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