[X4U] lost memory on macbook?

[Chris Long]

Yes, that would be my guess as well.  Currently my swap file is 2  
GB... Finder, Parallels, Mail, Safari, iChat, Preview, and iTunes  
running.  Uptime is 5 days.  Usually on restart the file starts at  
512MB (I think), but as soon as I run Parallels or Photoshop, it will  
quickly climb to 2 GB, matching the RAM in the system.  It usually  
doesn't climb higher unless I use Parallels, Photoshop, and/or  
InDesign, Dreamweaver, etc.  I use the iStat Pro widget to monitor.  I  
would suggest a larger drive, but the previous suggestion of WhatSize  
was a helpful app that helped me free up about 2 GB of unknown waste.

Chris


On Jan 14, 2008, at 9:50 AM, alexandre wrote:

> hi
>
> could it also be the "swap file" used by the system?
>
> On 14 janv. 08, at 14:06, Fred Pryor wrote:
>
>> Take a look at your logs,  console.app can sometimes start  
>> generating hugh reports. I don't know why but I've seen a couple  
>> machines with logs greater that 20GB.
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Mitchell Senft wrote:
>>
>>> I have inexplicably have filled nearly the entire hard drive of my  
>>> 80G MacBook. I admit to 30-odd gigs of music but the rest? The MB  
>>> is also dual booting although the Win side (accessed with  
>>> Parallels) is used to run a remote access to the work machine.  
>>> Also, when I start up, maybe I have 1-2 gigs available and,  
>>> without saving anything in the course of a session, that number  
>>> shrinks to approximately 500 megs.
>>>
>>> What explains all that?
>>>
>>> What solutions are there (other than dumping a lot of music)?