[X4U] Low on Memory - I don't believe it

[Andrew Swanson]

I'd like to see if other people agree with my conclusion here.
These are the symptoms:
1) A couple of times lately, I've gotten the "Low on Memory" dialog. 
The one that ask you to choose running applications to force quit and 
free up virtual memory. The thing is, at the same time that this is 
happening, the boot drive claims to have over 8GB free.

2) On several occasions recently the entire system has frozen up 
(usually while I'm away and the screen-saver is showing - or the screen 
is darkened.) When I try to wake up the system the screen relights - 
showing the screen-saver, but is otherwise totally unresponsive. Other 
times it freezes up while in use. After forcing a restart everything 
(usually) appears to be fine (for a while).

3) On those occasions above when things don't appear to be fine, the 
system instead boots from one of the firewire drives and the internal 
drive does not appear on the desktop. It doesn't even show up in "Disk 
Utility". Restarting makes the system start from the internal drive as 
usual. Forcing a start from the firewire drive and running "Disk 
Utility" on the internal drive results in "The drive appears to be OK."

4) This all seems to have started at roughly the same time as I got a 
new firewire drive to hold my iTunes Library. At first it seemed to 
happen once every four or five days, but now it seems to be getting 
more frequent - sometimes even more than once a day.

Any ideas?


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