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>If your system is spending a lot of time moving data to and from swap when 
>it is not memory-starved, or if it is stalling memory allocations that it 
>should be able to fulfill from free RAM, that's a concern.

That is exactly it. I emphaises th words " when it is not memory-starved ". 
It isn't memory starved.

Also I get 150Mb frequently of swap disk space, whilst still having a 
complete third of my memory free!!

I can understand everyones view on this, that the swap algorithim is swaping 
pre-emtively. But 150MB?? Is that what is called a low level of swaping??

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