How to clear swap files in Mac

Asked May 09 '13 at 00:19

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I'm making a small project using Xcode 4.2 which uses the current versions of the following libraries - Ogre3d, ArUco, Bullet (using OgreBullet wrapper) and OpenCv. 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.

And the major issue: my swap files keep growing at an alarming pace to near about 10Gb after 3-4 hours of work forcing me to reboot the machine to clear it off as I run out of disk space.

Is there a way to release this swap space without reboot? Thnx!

*There have been a lot of similar problems reported in a number of mac forums but no clear solution is mentioned anywhere.

asked May 09 '13 at 00:19

Ani

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Can we migrate this question to super user? it has a lot of views and upvotes. This might actually get an answer. – Whitecat Feb 22 '17 at 23:51
@Whitecat sure. – Ani Feb 26 '17 at 19:56
I wrote a comment to moderators to do the migration. – Whitecat Mar 01 '17 at 00:12
@Whitecat thanks for the help. I wasn't aware of the process. – Ani Mar 01 '17 at 14:24

How to clear swap files in Mac

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