What is swap cache?
Issue
What does the swap cached amount represent?
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 8059232 kB
MemFree: 330272 kB
Buffers: 140656 kB
Cached: 3754884 kB
SwapCached: 105992 kB
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7
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