Swap usage should be 0% if we have enough free memory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We see poor performance in the system and we can see a small amount of memory Swap used. We believe that this could be the origin of the issue.
  • The system have some swap memory used but we have free RAM available. Why is this happening?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, All Variants.

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