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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

*** 117,127 **** segkpm_fault, SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* faulta */ SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* setprot */ SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* checkprot */ SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* kluster */ - SEGKPM_BADOP(size_t), /* swapout */ SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* sync */ SEGKPM_BADOP(size_t), /* incore */ SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* lockop */ SEGKPM_BADOP(int), /* getprot */ SEGKPM_BADOP(u_offset_t), /* getoffset */ --- 117,126 ----