title: Heavy swapping on oracle 12.1.0.2
body: <p>I am getting following error. My DB version is "Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production" and i have already gone through Doc ID 1919850.1. I want to know if there is any way to avoid swapping.</p>
  
  <pre><code>WARNING: Heavy swapping observed on system in last 5 mins. pct of
  memory swapped in [1.80%] pct of memory swapped out [3.26%]. Please
  make sure there is no memory pressure and the SGA and PGA are
  configured correctly. Look at DBRM trace file for more details. Errors
  in file /oradb/oracle/diag/rdbms/PROD/PROD/trace/PROD_dbrm_7340532.trc
  (incident=16875): ORA-00700: soft internal error, arguments:
  [kskvmstatact: excessive swapping observed], [], [], [], [], [], [],
  [], [], [], [], [] Incident details in:
  /oradb/oracle/diag/rdbms/PROD/PROD/incident/incdir_16875/PROD_dbrm_7340532_i16875.trc
  Tue Jun 16 09:41:47 2015 Dumping diagnostic data in
  directory=[cdmp_20150616094147], requested by (instance=1,
  osid=20120017 (DBRM)), summary=[incident=16875]. Tue Jun 16 09:41:50
  2015 Sweep [inc][16875]: completed Sweep [inc2][16875]: completed
  </code></pre>