mac swap memory usage

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

2008年12月27日 — There is no way to clear swap from terminal. It will be cleared on a restart. Besides, as i said, if you see a large swap file it means that there is not ...

2013年5月9日 — I'm facing a big problem with the swap files presumably due to memory leak in Xcode. RAM usage of Xcode increases after every few builds & run.

2018年5月11日 — 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?

2022年11月1日 — You don't have to do this, but if you want to clear it, you can do so by logging out and logging back in instead of restarting. Upvote

如何清理Mac 上的「使用的交換檔」空間</b>打開活動監視器。切換到「記憶體」選項卡。選擇佔用記憶體空間大的應用程式和進程，然後點擊「退出」按鈕。2023年12月18日

A swap file is space reserved on a computer's hard drive or SSD as a temporary location to store information that is not in use by the built-in physical memory.

2023年5月11日 — Under normal conditions, MacOS will always use some swap regardless of how much memory you bought. I took a 2 week hard test drive of an 8GB 13 ...

2024年4月9日 — It doesn't matter how much memory you have, it will always swap some amount. What matters is the memory pressure. Yours is less than half and in the green so ...

2023年12月7日 — In the Activity Monitor application click on the RAM tab and look at the little graphic in the bottom left corner. If it becomes red your swap file is too ...