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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

*** 221,231 **** label_t pcb = t->t_pcb; (void) setjmp(&t->t_pcb); t->t_flag |= T_PANIC; - t->t_schedflag |= TS_DONT_SWAP; t->t_bound_cpu = cp; t->t_preempt++; panic_enter_hw(s); --- 221,230 ----