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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

*** 427,438 **** t->t_startpc = proc; t->t_procp = pp; t->t_clfuncs = &sys_classfuncs.thread; t->t_cid = syscid; t->t_pri = pri; ! t->t_stime = ddi_get_lbolt(); ! t->t_schedflag = TS_LOAD | TS_DONT_SWAP; t->t_bind_cpu = PBIND_NONE; t->t_bindflag = (uchar_t)default_binding_mode; t->t_bind_pset = PS_NONE; t->t_plockp = &pp->p_lock; t->t_copyops = NULL; --- 427,437 ---- t->t_startpc = proc; t->t_procp = pp; t->t_clfuncs = &sys_classfuncs.thread; t->t_cid = syscid; t->t_pri = pri; ! t->t_schedflag = 0; t->t_bind_cpu = PBIND_NONE; t->t_bindflag = (uchar_t)default_binding_mode; t->t_bind_pset = PS_NONE; t->t_plockp = &pp->p_lock; t->t_copyops = NULL;