Ideally, I'd like to kill and destroy (remove) swap files and start again on the same run, but macOS doesn't allow me to do it. I could restart it but after few days this problem repeating every week. Sudo touch swapfile 2>/dev/nullīut it didn't work, as the system still creates/changes files despite of 000 permissions, weird.įor some reason, htop shows virtual memory as 532G, but I believe it's a bug, as top is showing less used.Ībove htop/ top shows only 2 tasks running, 445 are sleeping, CPU is not used that much, but kernel is busy with swapping between 15G of files. Trick the system by creating dummy swap files before they're created: cd /var/vm

run sudo purge (force disk cache to be purged).I'd like to somehow drop these files without disabling dynamic_pager. rw- 1 root wheel 1.0G May 9 16:18 /var/vm/swapfile6

rw- 1 root wheel 1.0G May 8 11:05 /var/vm/swapfile5 rw- 1 root wheel 1.0G May 4 05:50 /var/vm/swapfile4 rw- 1 root wheel 1.0G May 4 14:02 /var/vm/swapfile3 rw- 1 root wheel 1.0G May 2 12:45 /var/vm/swapfile2 Vm.swapfileprefix: /private/var/vm/swapfile Got 15G of swap files, is there any method of freeing swap space/files without restart? $ sysctl -a | grep swap I'm on High Sierra on MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM with SSD.

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