Swap space becomes critically low in the system

Question

Hi,
We are facing a situation where the swap space space  is critically low in the system, there is just 10 % available swap space in the system
And we can't see the swap space being released to the OS .
This is one of the  Application servers we have for R3 system.
SAP environment:
SAP Netweaver 7.01
LINUX RHEL
Oracle 11g
$free -m //outut
As you can see we have 64G physical memory allocated to this application server whereas the configured swap space is around 20G.
This Linux box houses two application server one for R3 and the other for CRM.
Would appreciate if you can tell me what should be done to release the swap space as above shows that 18 gig of 20 is being used right now.
Regards,
Rakesh

Answer 1

Thanks Gaurav..
what you have said makes sense we will check that parameter which determines to what extent swap space should be used between 0 to 100 %.
However, I have found that there are many swaps in the SAP buffer (ST02) that we will be tuning soon in both of the application servers that I had mentioned above,
I have checked the ST06 and couldn't found any page in/out activity.
see below the screen shots of  ST02 and ST06 for both application servers.
Regards,
Rakesh