
Chapter 3. z/VSE overview 81
A page, a frame, and a slot are all the same size: four kilobytes. An active virtual
storage page resides in a central storage frame. A virtual storage page that
becomes inactive may reside in an auxiliary storage slot (in a paging data set).
Figure 3-5 shows the relationship of pages, frames, and slots.
Figure 3-5 Frames, pages, and slots
In Figure 3-5, z/VSE is performing paging for a program running in virtual
storage. The lettered boxes represent parts of the program. In this simplified
view, program parts A, E, F, and H are active and running in central storage
frames, while parts B, C, D, and G are inactive ...