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OS : Linux release 7 : Swap space consuming 10GB despite the server have no load

OS : Linux release 7
Recently we have installed some Oracle software on server.
This Dev server, out of total 20GB, it is taking around 10GB for swap as below.
total used
Swap: 9207 9205

free -m shows presently 500 MB memory is free in OS.
Shall we go for Mem Upgrade or Any alternate fix required to resolve this issue.

please advise

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please find details as requested

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 23851 22660 237 9 953 886
Swap: 9207 9205 2

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free -m -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 23G 22G 247M 9.4M 859M 803M
Swap: 9.0G 9.0G 188K

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oracle fusion product Just installed ... there is no workload as it is meant for dev

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any update ?

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