[Ti] more about that disappearing disk space

[Michael]

>>Unless you need the disk space right away, restarting is not 
>>necessary as Unix will eventually free up the disk space;
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>Eventually when?
>
>I have a feeling of several days if not weeks when the space just 
>get _less and less_ as I clear away files. :-( When I restart I will 
>get back a GB or sometimes even a little bit more.  I'm not 
>restarting in order to recover files I have only noticed the effect 
>that Trevor described.

in my experience, about 20 minutes or so... that's walking away from 
my Mac.  Unix maintenance tasks are generally low priority and won't 
run if you are constantly making demands on processor/memory.
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