Memory usage low and Virtual memory usage high?

Hello,

Running Virtualmin on a Centos 8 server, 64 Giga RAM. Apache2/php-fpm are used to run a quite large wordpress.

As I have a large RAM I am surprised to see that, according to Webmin, I am using 12% RAM and 68% virtual memory. Website loads fast even with thousand visitors but that would be probably better (and more logical?) to use more RAM?

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 64072 6002 2857 1460 55212 55903
Swap: 2044 1379 665

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
10

Any suggestion?

Thank you

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Thank you Joe,

This morning something strange happened: CPU was at 100%, sites quite not loading. I checked various things and saw that “disk limits” of domain was set at 1 Giga! I never put such limit, there are 150 gigas files already… So I removed the limit in Virtualmin and all went to normal, I rebooted the server to clean all, and now surprise:

free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 64072 4661 52173 170 7237 58534
Swap: 2044 0 2044

Swap stays at 0, already 4 hours. Of course there is plenty of RAM but is it normal? I wonder if there isn’t something badly configured here…

By the way, why this “limit” set at 1 giga, on both domains hosted? There is one big site and a dozen of small blogs, I did n’t put any limit, never, as I manage them all. I remember I made some updates yesterday (no reboot), and there are some sites automatic backups during the night. Maybe something here?

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