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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

*** 764,774 **** 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, --- 764,773 ----