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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

*** 29,40 **** /* * Portions of this source code were derived from Berkeley 4.3 BSD * under license from the Regents of the University of California. */ - #pragma ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI" - /* * VM - segment for non-faulting loads. */ #include <sys/types.h> --- 29,38 ----
*** 95,105 **** (faultcode_t (*)(struct seg *, caddr_t)) segnf_nomap, /* faulta */ segnf_setprot, segnf_checkprot, (int (*)())segnf_badop, /* kluster */ - (size_t (*)(struct seg *))NULL, /* swapout */ (int (*)(struct seg *, caddr_t, size_t, int, uint_t)) segnf_nop, /* sync */ (size_t (*)(struct seg *, caddr_t, size_t, char *)) segnf_nop, /* incore */ (int (*)(struct seg *, caddr_t, size_t, int, int, ulong_t *, size_t)) --- 93,102 ----