> That's completely normal.  The kernel will always try to use 
> as much memory
> as it can spare for I/O buffering.  If buffer memory gets 
> heavily fragmented,
> it'll use a bit of swap space while it defragments.  The 
> performance impact
> is negligible and it'll happen no matter how much RAM you 
> have.  After the
> memory frees up, the swap space will remain in use because 
> fetching from
> swap is done lazily (i.e. on-demand).

Even if system has a plenty of RAM available?


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