Why Swap space is used even though there is enough memory available under Cache ?

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Issue

  • On SAP server 100% swap usage is observed even though 50% RAM is under Cache. Why is Cache memory not reclaimed instead of using swap ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • SAP

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