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Hello

> but seeing processes marked as swapped is not in itself a significant
> problem. 

yes, but is very annoying and confusing


> It's really just a way of reducing the priority of certain
> pages in case  actual page-outs occur later. 

whether this affects the performance?


> In your original post you had many idle processes marked as swapped and
> *zero* swap usage. 

Yes there where zero swap usage. if it is not broken and correctly
indicates :)


Best Regards.