sar: difference paging and swapping - paging without swap space

Hi,

I'm exploring the sar tool of unix/linux.

There I've found two parameters -B and -W both dealing with
paging/swapping. As I found out, the difference between paging and
swapping is that swapping is for whole processes and paging just for
parts of memory pages of a process.
Is this correct?

But now I disabled my swap-space and I still have paging on a idle
system:

14:43:57 pgpgin/s pgpgout/s activepg inadtypg inaclnpg inatarpg
14:43:58 0.00 0.00 54132 0 0 0
14:43:59 0.00 0.00 54132 0 0 0
14:44:00 0.00 0.00 54132 0 0 0
14:44:01 0.00 136.00 54132 0 0 0

14:44:01 pgpgin/s pgpgout/s activepg inadtypg inaclnpg inatarpg
14:44:02 0.00 0.00 54132 0 0 0
14:44:03 0.00 48.00 54132 0 0 0

What's the reason for that? Where does the paging goes to?

Thanks,
Josef

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