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remove whole-process swapping
Long before Unix supported paging, it used process swapping to reclaim
memory.  The code is there and in theory it runs when we get *extremely* low
on memory.  In practice, it never runs since the definition of low-on-memory
is antiquated. (XXX: define what antiquated means)
You can check the number of swapout/swapin events with kstats:
$ kstat -p ::vm:swapin ::vm:swapout

*** 1108,1125 **** sysdc_globpri(kthread_t *t) { return (t->t_epri); } - /*ARGSUSED*/ - static pri_t - sysdc_no_swap(kthread_t *t, int flags) - { - /* SDC threads cannot be swapped. */ - return (-1); - } - /* * Get maximum and minimum priorities enjoyed by SDC threads. */ static int sysdc_getclpri(pcpri_t *pcprip) --- 1108,1117 ----
*** 1200,1211 **** sysdc_enosys, /* parmsset */ sysdc_nullsys, /* stop */ sysdc_exit, sysdc_nullsys, /* active */ sysdc_nullsys, /* inactive */ - sysdc_no_swap, /* swapin */ - sysdc_no_swap, /* swapout */ sysdc_nullsys, /* trapret */ sysdc_preempt, sysdc_setrun, sysdc_sleep, sysdc_tick, --- 1192,1201 ----