So that 2M of used swap is completely irrelevant. Same on my laptop

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           31989       11350        4474        2459       16164       19708
    Swap:           6047          20        6027

My syslog server on the other hand (which does a ton of stuff on disk) does use swap

    Mem:            1919         333          75           0        1511        1403
    Swap:           2047         803        1244

With uptime of 235 days.

If I were to increase this to 8G of ram instead of 2G, but for arguments sake had to have no swap as the tradeoff, would that be better or worse. Swap fans say worse.