expand on swap priorities, xref new section in swapctl(8). PR#12610.

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.\" $NetBSD: swapctl.2,v 1.18 2001/03/10 12:57:02 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: swapctl.2,v 1.19 2001/04/11 14:18:30 mrg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Matthew R. Green
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ left unused to prevent any disklabel present from being overwritten. This
space is allocated from the swap device when the
.Dv SWAP_ON
command is used.
.Pp
The priority of a swap device can be used to fill faster swap devices before
slower ones. A priority of 0 is the highest, with larger numbers having
lower priority. For a fuller discussion on swap priority, see
.Xr swapctl 8 .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If the
.Fa cmd
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points outside the process' allocated address space.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr swapctl 8
.Xr swapctl 8 .
.Sh AUTHOR
The current swap system was designed and implemented by Matthew Green
<mrg@eterna.com.au>, with help from Paul Kranenburg <pk@NetBSD.ORG>