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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 ----