[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS V9.1 Field Test beginning.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-07-01 kl. 10:26, skrev John Dallman:
> In article <sbig2b$m5$1 at dont-email.me>, johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org
> (John H. Reinhardt) wrote:
> 
>> V9.1 Field Test Release Notes:
>> <https://vmssoftware.com/docs/VSI-X86V91-RN.pdf>
> 
> I don't know very much about VMS at the system management level. Section
> 1.24 of this document says that OpenVMS x86 does not support swap files,
> but does say that page files should be used.
> 
> What's the difference between swapping and paging, on VMS?
> 
> John
> 

"Swapping" is for writing out whole processes to the swap-file.
"Paging" is for writing out individual memory pages to the page-file.