[P1] filled up ibook?

Tue Jan 6 09:19:56 PST 2004

When you say full, I'm supposing you mean the hard disk is full. One 
thing that OSX does is fill up your computer with many  many language 
files. They take up many many megabytes of space. You only need the 
languages you use, right? For me, that is US English. Search via Google 
for something called Delocalizer. Run it (I've run it twice after OS 
updates). It will present a list of language files that you can remove. 
Select all checks all of them. It automatically assumes you want to 
keep US English on your machine and won't try to delete those files. It 
will run for about 15 minutes or so and delete literally dozens of 
files, some of which are simply huge. The recoup of space is amazing.

Paul

On Jan 6, 2004, at 1:42 AM, Don Hinkle wrote:

> Tom: I just ran 'top' and got this result. Is this "good" or 
> "notsogood"?
> thanks,
> -don
>
>
> Processes:  42 total, 3 running, 39 sleeping... 106 threads            
> 03:30:45
> Load Avg:  1.35, 0.69, 0.51     CPU usage:  77.2% user, 22.8% sys, 
> 0.0% idle
> SharedLibs: num =    7, resident = 2.21M code, 136K data, 568K LinkEdit
> MemRegions: num = 3232, resident = 49.8M + 9.64M private, 88.6M shared
> PhysMem:  47.5M wired, 74.6M active,  181M inactive,  303M used,  337M 
> free
> VM: 1.55G + 3.62M   7575(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts
>
>   PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  
> VSIZE
>   504 top          6.1%  0:02.64   1    14    17   208K   336K   504K  
> 13.6M
>   503 tcsh         0.0%  0:00.03   1    10    15   344K   600K   788K  
> 5.73M
>   502 login        0.0%  0:01.31   1    12    33   248K   388K   576K  
> 13.7M
>   442 lookupd      0.0%  0:00.87   2    31    47   360K   520K   892K  
> 14.9M
>   419 DCPd         0.0%  0:02.69   2    82    55   580K  1.70M  1.83M  
> 18.1M
>   418 pppd         0.0%  0:00.13   1    10    31   196K   836K   372K  
> 14.1M
>   412 Terminal    83.2%  0:23.98   3    58   127  2.74M- 7.78M  8.21M  
> 50.8M
>   393 Safari       0.0%  0:35.02   5   104   257  13.2M  13.6M  21.8M  
> 74.8M
>   381 automount    0.0%  0:00.06   2    22    21   136K   428K   600K  
> 14.7M
>   355 Mail         0.0%  5:34.73   4   143   219  8.25M  16.3M  14.0M  
> 65.0M
>   351 iChatAgent   0.0%  0:00.24   2    48    22   328K  1.24M  1.30M  
> 15.5M
>   350 UniversalA   0.0%  0:09.75   1    50    67   664K  4.34M  2.38M  
> 43.5M
>   349 StickyBrai   0.8%  6:31.26   2   113   164  5.38M  11.6M  12.5M  
> 93.1M
>   347 HotKey       0.8%  4:18.05   4   103    66   724K  2.58M  2.40M  
> 28.2M
>   346 Palm Deskt   0.0%  2:26.33   1    44    85   860K  5.58M  3.33M  
> 42.8M
>   344 Tex-Edit P   0.0%  3:01.15   1    53    97  1.37M  9.35M  7.07M  
> 52.0M
>   343 Palm Deskt   0.0%  1:13.29   2   115   148  4.09M  27.6M  22.0M- 
> 81.5M
>   341 Finder       0.0%  0:06.72   1    73   158  2.42M  18.5M  11.5M  
> 63.0M
>   340 SystemUISe   2.6%  6:02.76   3   169   164  2.35M  5.44M  5.50M  
> 47.6M
>   339 Dock         0.0%  0:02.61   2    90   127   964K  8.47M  5.89M  
> 45.9M
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 03:26  AM, Tom R. no spam wrote:
>
>> OSX will always create at least one swapfile, size 80MB.  That's
>> the swapfile0 you're seeing.  With lots of RAM, you may never
>> have another one created since you may never need to swap
>> program memory content out to swapfile to make room in RAM for
>> some other program's memory needs.  Run top (type "top" at a
>> terminal window command line) and see what number you have for
>> pageouts.  Pageout means program memory contents had to be
>> "paged out", ie copied to swapfile, to make room in RAM for some
>> other program's memory needs.  A multitasking OS at work may be
>> swapping in and out constantly if there's not enough RAM to hold
>> all programs' memory usage needs.  "Page" is a unit in terms of
>> which memory usage is measured.  Paging in and out slows down
>> a computer, which is why it's good to have lots of RAM.
>> ...
>
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