[Ti] Virtual Memory in Leopard 10.5.2

[Bob Fowles]

This forum article (and others) found by searching with "disk space 
increase vm" may be of use: 
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6428346&#6428346 . 
By rebooting and not permitting any apps to start (I forget the key 
you press during restart), and starting your apps one at a time, you 
can use Terminal or Activity Monitor to see what app is causing such 
a large VM or swap space. If VM space is 49G at startup with no apps 
running, that is a different sort of problem.

Bob Fowles

At 6:18 PM +0000 2/21/08, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>I have just installed a new 160 Gb disk in my Rev 1 (September 2003) 
>aluminium G4 Powerbook.  45 minutes.
>It is an Hitachi drive.  Unfortunately only 5400 rpm, as it replaced 
>a Momentus 100 Gb drive which was 7200 rpm....
>
>I used CCC to move my files over, which gave a disk with loads of 
>free space (almost 50 Gb)
>
>After a few days, I got a message that my start-up disk was full !!!
>
>And it was, in that the free space was zero.
>
>It seems that the virtual memory is occupying 49 Gb of disk space.
>I can hardly believe it.
>
>In the old (pre 10.5.2) days, re-starting seemed to clear all the 
>old swap files.  Not any more.
>I am stuck with only 7 Gb free after re-starting.
>
>Any ideas of a way forward on this ?
>
>Has anyone else found this issue ?
>
>If I could get rid of the files, and regain my 45_ Gb, I would use 
>Drive Genius to make a 20 Gb partition and use that for my virtual 
>memory files.
>
>Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>regards,  Trevor
>
>PS: the only benefit I have noticed from the massive 10.5.2 update 
>is that my keyboard backlighting now works..... which is indeed 
>useful when walking around my garden at midnight looking for a 3G 
>signal to send my email.....
>
>
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