I am having a major problem with swapfiles. Can anyone help

I have had a recurring issue for a few months now with accumulating swapfiles. My system drive fills with these files (65 x 1.9gb, the latest) slowing down the system due to finite disk space and causing some maintenence to be carried out. I have up to now been able to get rid of them using the finder to delete the actual files after making them visible in the finder(using IceClean by MacDentro). I can also use Omni disk sweeper to see the space on the drive as well as Disk Inventory X. Now I cannot delete the files. They have conglomerated into a unknown space that cannot be grabbed and trashed nor physically deleted through the finder.
I am using an SSD 120gb drive with a system size count of 42gb. Bar 5gb the rest is this ether space that wont go away. I have a feeling that this is going to need to terminal commands witch I do not have at my disposal. Can any please help? This is driving me mad. I have reset the PRAM numerous times but this is too lightweight.
Hard core terminal shyte, Bring it on. Please
regards
Ken

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