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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

*** 221,235 **** * Mark the time when thread is placed on wait queue. The microstate * accounting code uses this timestamp to determine wait times. */ t->t_waitrq = gethrtime_unscaled(); - /* - * Mark thread as not swappable. If necessary, it will get - * swapped out when it returns to the userland. - */ - t->t_schedflag |= TS_DONT_SWAP; DTRACE_SCHED1(cpucaps__sleep, kthread_t *, t); waitq_link(wq, t); THREAD_WAIT(t, &wq->wq_lock); return (1); --- 221,230 ----