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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
*** 780,790 ****
segkmem_fault,
SEGKMEM_BADOP(faultcode_t), /* faulta */
segkmem_setprot,
segkmem_checkprot,
segkmem_kluster,
- SEGKMEM_BADOP(size_t), /* swapout */
SEGKMEM_BADOP(int), /* sync */
SEGKMEM_BADOP(size_t), /* incore */
SEGKMEM_BADOP(int), /* lockop */
SEGKMEM_BADOP(int), /* getprot */
SEGKMEM_BADOP(u_offset_t), /* getoffset */
--- 780,789 ----