Keeping a mac running nicely - tooltwist/documentation GitHub Wiki

Cleaning up swap files

If your machine is running out of disk space, a lot of space may be being used by swap files in /private/var/vm. These can be removed using this command:

sudo dynamic_pager -L 1073741824

See http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2011/12/16/osx-privatevarvm-disk-usage/ for details.

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