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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
*** 198,208 ****
segdev_fault,
segdev_faulta,
segdev_setprot,
segdev_checkprot,
(int (*)())segdev_badop, /* kluster */
- (size_t (*)(struct seg *))NULL, /* swapout */
segdev_sync, /* sync */
segdev_incore,
segdev_lockop, /* lockop */
segdev_getprot,
segdev_getoffset,
--- 198,207 ----