CSNAPC-10925: Swap space exhaustion on Linux host running SnapCenter Plug-in process

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Issue

Linux host with SnapCenter Plug‑in for UNIX File Systems 6.1 or 6.2 installed shows significant swap usage
The scAgent process consumes a large amount of swap space:

# ps -eo pid,ppid,user,uid,psr,nlwp,pri,ni,stat,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,etimes,command --sort=-%mem
    PID    PPID USER       UID PSR NLWP PRI  NI STAT %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS ELAPSED COMMAND
   5166    3208 root         0   0   60  19   0 Sl    0.6  2.8 14584008 924672 4740799 /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.25.0.9-2.el8.x86_64/bin/java -DINSTALL_PATH=/opt/NetApp/snapcenter/scc -classpath /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/scc/lib/scAgent-2.0-core.jar:/opt/NetApp/snapcenter/scc/etc:/opt/NetApp/snapcenter/scc/lib/* com.netapp.snapcreator.agent.nextgen.Starter start
...
# cat /proc/5166/smaps_rollup
613000000-7ffde6b8a000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                             [rollup]
Rss:              930960 kB
Pss:              926048 kB
Shared_Clean:       6404 kB
Shared_Dirty:          0 kB
Private_Clean:       952 kB
Private_Dirty:    923604 kB
Referenced:       908968 kB
Anonymous:        923600 kB
LazyFree:              0 kB
AnonHugePages:    108544 kB
ShmemPmdMapped:        0 kB
FilePmdMapped:         0 kB
Shared_Hugetlb:        0 kB
Private_Hugetlb:       0 kB
Swap:            8150208 kB
SwapPss:         8150208 kB
Locked:                0 kB