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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
@@ -764,11 +764,10 @@
segmf_fault,
segmf_faulta,
segmf_setprot,
segmf_checkprot,
(int (*)())segmf_kluster,
- (size_t (*)(struct seg *))NULL, /* swapout */
segmf_sync,
segmf_incore,
segmf_lockop,
segmf_getprot,
segmf_getoffset,