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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

*** 652,668 **** continue; thread_lock(t); switch (t->t_state) { case TS_SLEEP: - /* - * Don't touch the lwp is it is swapped out. - */ - if (!(t->t_schedflag & TS_LOAD)) { - mstate = LMS_SLEEP; - break; - } switch (mstate = ttolwp(t)->lwp_mstate.ms_prev) { case LMS_TFAULT: case LMS_DFAULT: case LMS_KFAULT: case LMS_USER_LOCK: --- 652,661 ----