Swap Used in Mac

I'm on High Sierra on MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM with SSD. Got 15G of swap files, is there any method of freeing swap space/files without restart?

Is there any way to delete the swap space. I usually restart the computer to get back that space, but there has to be a smarter and easier way to get back that ...

I'm use to linux and I'm wondering how I clear the swap in OSX. In linux I would do swapoff -a && swapon -a. Is there a way to do this in OSX?

It is my understanding that .swap files should clear out after a restart. I have a folder that does not clear out. Any ideas how I can fix this?

8GB for your use case should be totally fine and ignore the swap numbers. Most of the time it's pointless. Under normal conditions, MacOS will always use some ...

To see current swap usage sysctl -a | grep swap Use only when when your system is in a very bad shape $ sudo pkill -HUP -u _windowserver

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Just leave it. There's no need to « empty the swap » swap is memory saved on disk. Clearing it just consumes power for nothing.

You don't. System will handle it. Just reboot from time to time. If you're so stressed about swap memory, the only choice you have is to buy a new Mac with ...