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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

@@ -107,11 +107,10 @@
         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,