[X4U] cause of kernel panics?

[Keith Whaley]

J Flenner wrote:
> thanks, but no, i'm only using about 1/10 of my memory
> 
> jackie f.

No, no... not "memory." That uses RAM chips.
They're talking about how much room there is left on your hard drive.
It's storage space. That is not the same as RAM.

If you have a 40 Gb hard drive, and you've only 500 Mb left available 
for use, you are already using up 98 ¾% of the available space.  That is 
not nearly enough for standard operations on your computer.
That is likely the source of your kernel panics!

keith whaley

> From: Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] cause of kernel panics?
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> 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?


>>From: "Randy B.Singer" <randy at macattorney.com>
>>Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
>><x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>>Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:45:01 -0800
>>To: J Flenner <varney at mindspring.com>, <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>>Subject: Re: [X4U] cause of kernel panics?
>>
>>J Flenner said:
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>>>At least, I think they're kernel panics: a box that orders me in 4 languages
>>>to shutdown and grays my screen over wherever I was when it happened.