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Why does the swap space includes a portion of RAM, it should only be SWAP. There may be some reason for including it, what is that ?

That's a pure semantic issue. What the "swap -s" command reports are accurate virtual memory statistics. "Total swap space" has always been used to describe the whole virtual memory under Solaris so this usage is consistent.

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Is there any reason behind that ?

No particular reason. The "swap" command behaves as documented in its manual page.

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