[X4U] cause of kernel panics?

[Richard Gilmore]

I'll give that a try. What my problem is, is that I'm a photographer and
I've got over 7000 photos in iPhoto and it's eating up my hard drive like
there's no tomorrow and I'm taking more pictures than ever. I've got a Linux
box with a 200GB hard drive that I've networked to my laptop which I move
stuff to regularly but most of my space is used up by the iPhoto library. Is
there a way to move the library to the Linux machine and still be able to
use iPhoto? Otherwise I'm just going to run into low space issues over and
over and over.



> 
> Richard Gilmore said:
> 
>> I had a kernal panic on my laptop with a 40 GB drive that had about 500 MB
>> of space left on it. I'm assuming low HD space can also cause them?
> 
> 
> See:
> 
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
> Item #5 and Note #2
> 
> I need to update Note #2 with some new defragmentation software for OS X
> that has become available. The  most promising of these is:
> 
> iDefrag
> http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php
> 
> There was also an article on MacFixIt just last week about how letting
> your drive fill up beyond 80% full is likely to lead to directory damage.
>  Some on this list may recall that I was heartily flamed for stating that
> on this list last year.
> 
> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050310003145313
> Thursday, March 10 2005
> 
>> Make sure you have enough free space on your startup volume Mac OS X
>> requires at least 10 percent of the volume it is contained on as free
>> space in order to maintain the integrity of the file system. However, even
>> with 10 percent free space, Mac OS X's use swap files - as well as extra
>> data generated by third-party application caches, etc. - can quickly put
>> you back into a position of possible directory/file damage and increased
>> incidence of spinning pinwheels.
>> 
>> Realistically, 20 percent of your Mac OS X startup volume should be kept
>> clear in order to achieve best performance and avoid disk problems.