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I was heavy tasking a while ago which probably lead to swap being used, probably the first time. But now there is still data in swap even though ram is free. enter image description here

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Fear not. This is expected behavior.

The kernel does not blindly copy back and forth between RAM and Swap. It's a bit more clever than that. Rarely-used data may remain in swap for quite a while.

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