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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 ----