MBP retina swap memory/humming issue

So i have 2 issues(may or may not be related) going on with my Retina MPB.
1. Whenever i play any flash video(youtube for ex:), it just goes crazy with humming sound(fan I imagine), even though it doesn't get hot and temps are within acceptable range. I don't see the process(chrome flash plugin) taking more than 15 to 20% cpu at max...and memory is acceptable as well, but this sound just keep fluctuating and can't figure out why exactly.
2. Mayb this is related to 1, but why does a machine with 16GB ram use 2.2 of swap memory? or I am reading activity monitor wrong?
http://cl.ly/image/2O3O381l111v (Screenshot of activity monitor)
Any thoughts?
thanks

You can check if some or other corner inside is overheating with Marcel Bresink's free Temperature Monitor. Or splurge a bit on his Hardware Monitor so you can check on temps, fans and the works. http://www.bresink.de/products.html
The use of swap on a user-class computer with 16GB RAM is indeed odd. I've been using mine all week long, running VMs on Fusion, all of Office's apps, browsers, whathaveyou, and swap still remains at zero. Only time I saw some swap space allocated was when I ran Gimp, that insists on swapping explicitly to disk, even if it is just editing a piddly 80k JPEG. But even then, the swap area allocated was just a few tens of MB's, nothing like that huge 2GB area. Besides Flash, care to share what else is running in there?

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