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Why Swap is being Consumed when Physical Memory is Available in DBaaS System or in any Linux System. (Doc ID 2739737.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 30, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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+ Why Swap is being Consumed when Physical Memory is Available in DBaaS System or in any Linux System.

#free -m
  total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 120616 115746 4869 167 390 44187
-/+ buffers/cache: 71169 49447
Swap: 2047 1614 433

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