Something is quite wrong indeed. I disabled the dynamic pager, and now my system is working as it's supposed to. Snappy and responsive. I opened all of my apps

Something is quite wrong indeed. I disabled the dynamic pager, and now my system is working as it's supposed to. Snappy and responsive. I opened all of my apps, expecting it to crash miserably: instead, the system started paging as it should, stayed responsive (though slower), and promptly returned to normal once it regained memory. I don't know what's going on, but I can definitely say that this is how I want my computer to work.