RAM large swap and paging after open large video file

Hi I'm using an i7 MBP with 4GB RAM. I have an issue, after watching a movie on the mac (file size about 4-5 GB) with vlc player, I found my RAM Swap jumped from 512MB to 3GB, and an substantial increased in paging (page in around 800k, page out around 100k).
After closing the player, my MBP become super slow and I have to wait for several minutes for it to stabilize itself, and still with a little retard here and there.
Could anyone enlighten me on this problem?
Thank you.

About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.

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