System shows swap usage even though "smaps" are empty
Issue
- System shows swap usage even though there are no "smaps" for any running applications.
- After swap flush(swapoff/swapon) there is no increase in memory usage ? What data was swap holding?
- After swap flush why did the system did not swapin all the anonymous pages ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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