[P1] filled up ibook?

[Eagle]

OK, I knew it had to be there so I kept looking. :)

See this macosxhints.com article for information on tuning 
dynamic_pager to remove unused swapfiles:
	http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030712130414339
Look for the text "Tuning dynamic_pager so unused swapfiles dissapear" 
[sic].

Cheers,

Eagle

On Jan 5, 2004, at 15:19, Eagle wrote:
> I would recommend against removing live swapfiles, as you stand a good 
> chance of hosing your system.
>
> If you have disabled swap on a file, you can safely delete it, because 
> OS X will remove any live swapped data from them.  However, as far as 
> I have been able to determine, OS X does not come with an application 
> (be it command-line or GUI-based) to disable a swap file to allow for 
> this.
>
> Another good solution, one that has been around since the NeXT days, 
> is to just reboot when your swap files grow too large. :)
>
> Eagle
>
> On Jan 5, 2004, at 14:27, Mike Wallinga wrote:
>> I don't know if this will help you much, but if you are comfortable 
>> using the Terminal, this is one thing you can check:
>>
>> Mac OS X is pretty good at allocating virtual memory on-the-fly as 
>> needed - it just creates another swap file on the hard disk whenever 
>> it's getting low.  But, it isn't very good at deleting swap files 
>> when they're not needed any more.  You can check how many swap files 
>> are on the disk by doing on of these two commands at the terminal:
>>
>> ls /var/vm/
>> ls -l /var/vm
>>
>> (The second command will give you the same information as the first, 
>> but with a little more detail, including the size of each swap file.)
>>
>> If you've got too many of these eating up disk space you should be 
>> pretty safe deleting them.  Here is the  Terminal command that will 
>> do this:
>>
>> sudo rm /var/vm/swapfileX (where X is the number of the swapfile you 
>> want to delete)
>> or
>> sudo rm /var/vm/swapfile* will wipe them all out at once.
>>
>> I just did this to my iBook as I was typing this email - I had four 
>> swap files taking up about half a gig of space total.  My iBook has 
>> 640 MB of RAM; if the teacher's iBook has less RAM, it could very 
>> well have several more swap files.
>>
>> Anyway, this may or may not be an answer to your question, but it's 
>> something you could try.  Hope this helps a little bit!
>>
>>  - Mike Wallinga
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Don Hinkle wrote:
>>> I was just visiting the local K-8 school, where they have a large 
>>> computer lab filled with iMacs and other newer Macs, including a 
>>> double-chipped G5.
>>> Anyway, the teacher's iBook has a 10G HD but with nothing on it but 
>>> apps, (i.e., no big video or photo files) seems almost full up.
>>> It's running 10.2.6 (I think).
>>> Seems as if I read somewhere about some anomoly in the OS causing it 
>>> to look full when it's not really.
>>> ?
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> donald henry hinkle