The "active" pages in your inactive daemons are probably the glibc
pages, which are generally in use by other applications. It should
not have any real effect on the system - in fact, keeping glibc in
memory is probably a Good Thing, and may be partially responsible for
your improvement in performance.
AFAICT, 'pinning' active pages in memory is a good thing, provided
they are deactivated appropriately after a period of disuse. This
appears to be the case in current kernels and the new VM, so you're
good to go in my view.
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