High swap usage and low memory usage on headless server

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My headless Ubuntu (18.10) server is regularly using 30% of my memory and 60% of my swap space, even though I've set vm.swappiness = 1:



              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem: 6.8Gi 1.6Gi 198Mi 13Mi 5.0Gi 4.9Gi
Swap: 2.0Gi 1.4Gi 664Mi


I've verified (after rebooting) that my custom swappiness is indeed set, so why is my server using so much of my swap space, when there's still so much memory available?










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    My headless Ubuntu (18.10) server is regularly using 30% of my memory and 60% of my swap space, even though I've set vm.swappiness = 1:



                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem: 6.8Gi 1.6Gi 198Mi 13Mi 5.0Gi 4.9Gi
    Swap: 2.0Gi 1.4Gi 664Mi


    I've verified (after rebooting) that my custom swappiness is indeed set, so why is my server using so much of my swap space, when there's still so much memory available?










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      My headless Ubuntu (18.10) server is regularly using 30% of my memory and 60% of my swap space, even though I've set vm.swappiness = 1:



                    total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
      Mem: 6.8Gi 1.6Gi 198Mi 13Mi 5.0Gi 4.9Gi
      Swap: 2.0Gi 1.4Gi 664Mi


      I've verified (after rebooting) that my custom swappiness is indeed set, so why is my server using so much of my swap space, when there's still so much memory available?










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      My headless Ubuntu (18.10) server is regularly using 30% of my memory and 60% of my swap space, even though I've set vm.swappiness = 1:



                    total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
      Mem: 6.8Gi 1.6Gi 198Mi 13Mi 5.0Gi 4.9Gi
      Swap: 2.0Gi 1.4Gi 664Mi


      I've verified (after rebooting) that my custom swappiness is indeed set, so why is my server using so much of my swap space, when there's still so much memory available?







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