[Ti] Virtual Memory in Leopard 10.5.2

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

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.....