To all:
Regarding recovering both memory and swap space, after killing an
algebraic program, I restarted the system, rand some of these types of
programs, then reached a point where I had to shut the system down, so I
tried using the kill -15 command to kill the running algebraic programs,
and then both physical memory and swap space were released. I was using
kill -9 in the past, but now I will use kill -15 as it does what I expected.
Also I found out a great CLI command to see what's in swap memory,
called "smem" and you can sort processes using swap by the simple command
% smem -s swap -r
very useful command to know.
I am not sure why kill -9 left stuff sitting around. (at least on my
machine)
Randall
