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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
*** 107,117 ****
segmap_fault,
segmap_faulta,
SEGMAP_BADOP(int), /* setprot */
segmap_checkprot,
segmap_kluster,
- SEGMAP_BADOP(size_t), /* swapout */
SEGMAP_BADOP(int), /* sync */
SEGMAP_BADOP(size_t), /* incore */
SEGMAP_BADOP(int), /* lockop */
segmap_getprot,
segmap_getoffset,
--- 107,116 ----