[X Newbies] How the Grinch Stole 45GB of My Hard Drive

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 11/30/02 16:40, "Vicki Schalin" <unicorn at dax.nu> wrote:

> With sherlock I have seen that I at one time had as many swapfiles as
> over 30. But they were deleted by the system gradually without
> restart, so OSX can really reuse and delete old swapfiles. So the
> statement "the only thing that gets rid of them is rebooting" from
> above is not true. But a quick way to get rid of them is of course to
> reboot...:-)

I have never seen them get deleted on either of my Macs. Perhaps they do
after a few days, but I end up rebooting because more than a couple of swap
files slows things down too much.


Kirk

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