PS - leaking memory is a term used to refer to an app that does not release memory that it no longer needs, and can basically block other apps from using that memory, usually due to a defect in the software. Ideally the Swap would go down to zero if you have added enough RAM. You can try to split up image files into smaller patches to work on bits of it at a time, or upgrade your RAM to meet the demands of your app so that you don't have to spill over into the swap space on the hard drive. This was useful back in the day when RAM maxed out at only a few GB. In fact, some apps allow you to select a location for where a scratch file can be written, like on a different drive than your boot drive, to share the read/write operations over two drives simultaneously during typical computer operations.
If you have an SSD or very fast hard drive, there is nothing wrong with using swap. " Swap Used:" is the memory usage beyond your actual RAM where the computer is using free space on the hard drive, which reading and writing is much slower than actual physical RAM but necessary in order to meet the memory demands of the apps you are running.
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