[P1] filled up ibook?

[Don Hinkle]

I finally did this in my terminal on my 'book, and got this result:
ls -l /var/vm
total 131072
drwx--x--x  12 root  wheel       408 30 Apr 17:59 app_profile
-rw------T   1 root  wheel  67108864  5 May 07:02 swapfile0

what I don't know, is whether it's good or "bad" to have a 6 MG 
swapfile like that?


-donald henry hinkle

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's 
too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:27 PM, 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.)