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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

@@ -117,11 +117,10 @@
         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 */