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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

*** 275,285 **** * initialize t0 */ t0.t_stk = (caddr_t)rp - MINFRAME; t0.t_stkbase = t0stack; t0.t_pri = maxclsyspri - 3; ! t0.t_schedflag = TS_LOAD | TS_DONT_SWAP; t0.t_procp = &p0; t0.t_plockp = &p0lock.pl_lock; t0.t_lwp = &lwp0; t0.t_forw = &t0; t0.t_back = &t0; --- 275,285 ---- * initialize t0 */ t0.t_stk = (caddr_t)rp - MINFRAME; t0.t_stkbase = t0stack; t0.t_pri = maxclsyspri - 3; ! t0.t_schedflag = 0; t0.t_procp = &p0; t0.t_plockp = &p0lock.pl_lock; t0.t_lwp = &lwp0; t0.t_forw = &t0; t0.t_back = &t0;