Meant, merely: that particular swapfile displayed in iStat.. which grows to almost 4 GB, with many pages of Safari left unclosed. Should I know about the ex. you gave, and similar - for intelligent maintenance?
(Can't see offhand why I should be intervening in any 'virtual machine' (operations) in normal circumstances.)
In similar vein of constructive failure to peruse The MIssing Manual -- I realize that there are beaucoup LOGs, presumably with individual close/store/open-new schedules set to some default. I expect I ought to find out those schedules and, someday delete many of the earlier ones. Or maybe not, if the actual %disk remains trivial by these defaults.
I find that I like not having to care! (mostly) yet I also mean to evade a OS reload, say because of very much accumulated cruft that cannot easily be vacuumed out? -- without detailed lore under one's belt. I see a certain conflict in these simultaneous aims.
(And I note that the latest build of Safari, with the cutesy 3D display of bookmarked sites - has managed to "..quit unexpectedly" twice.
No such events previously, but I do recall words about a few memory leaks in earlier versions. No loss, as the 'restore all pages' in History exists, works just fine.
All of this bitchin idiot-proof design is lulling me into a warm sense of Security which ... in most past experience ... eventually seemed to reach that tipping-point we call, false-
Just sayin.
Ed: oTpy