Bill Connelly wrote: > I've read somewhere if your free hard drive space is less than 50% of > the total, you might even have trouble running OS X ... don't know the > facts here, but you need more free space just to run OS X ... after > the space taken up by the Installation. I think its called Virtual > RAM cache. 40.8MB if you are talking about hard drive space, just > isn't enough, AFAIK. >
50% would be an absurd amount. A percentage value isn't relevant, the amount is principally tied to virtual memory which depends on what programs are open. A better figure is to not let free space drop below about 5Gb. Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---