I've been running a server which has a fairly busy Joomla site on it. The server has 2Gb RAM, and is running nginx, php5-fpm and mysql, and not much else. However it would run for a while and then the disk would start swapping out. Not a lot, but enough to cause a few issues. If I restarted the server, memory usage would start at something like this
>$ free total used free Mem: 2048036 1024048 1023988 Swap: 4192960 0 4192960
After about a day it would look like this
>$ free total used free Mem: 2048036 1924048 73988 Swap: 4192960 0 4192960
And eventually it would have a flurry of activity which would make it look like this
>$ free total used free Mem: 2048036 1924048 23988 Swap: 4192960 4567 4188393