That is what your critter is wanting to use, so if you take the space
away, it thinks the world has suddenly tilted. I think MCE will swap
your old drive out for a newer, bigger one (mirroring the data that is
currently on the old onto the new one, and if you want also swap the
DVD/CD for a DVD/CD-Burner) all for a fee of course.
I must beg your pardon. I based my typings on Terminal from some of the
comments that I have received from folks that never used a command line
before...
Jerry
On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 09:33 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
> Jerry:
>
> Here's what I get when I type "top" in the terminal (by the way, I'm
> not the guy that hates the terminal; I think that's Ward -- I'm just
> purely ignorant of it):
>
> MemRegions: num = 4998, resident = 92.9M + 13.8M private, ?110M shared
> PhysMem: ?46.9M wired, ?108M active, ?275M inactive, ?429M used, 82.7M
> free
> VM: 1.89G + 3.62M ??13087(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts ???
>
> No pageouts, so I guess that's good. Right now I have 652 MB of free
> space on my hard drive.
>
> So what does all this tell you about my system? Is it really using
> 1.89 GB of virtual memory?
>
> Dan
>
> >Yup, you found it. OS-X does use virtual memory via the hard drive.
> >When you start up it looks at how much physical RAM you have,
> >how much free hard drive space you have available and then
> >through some arcane formula previously known only to alchemists
> >decides on how much hard drive to set aside as virtual memory.
> >
> >I know you hate the Terminal, but humor me this once... (smile)
> >open Terminal and type the command:
> >
> >top
> >
> >then hit return
> >
> >toward the top of the page get back you might see something
> >like:
> >
> >MemRegions: num = 3220, resident = 60.7M + 9.20M private, 76.5M shared
> >PhysMem: ?43.0M wired, 92.8M active, ?177M inactive, ?313M used,
> ?303M free
> >VM: 2.61G + 63.9M ??9907(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts ???
> >
> >This is the virtual memory amount that has been set aside. if
> >for some reason, drive space is low, OS-X gets very cranky. (I
> >guess the alchemists didn't think about how cranky a machine
> >can get, sicne this was also the dawning of logical
> >positivism).
> >
> >Side note: If you see the pageouts number getting big, that
> >means your system is, well, under stress as it is saving memory
> >segments out to the drive (another reason why you want to use
> >the shutdown option rather than turning the machine off !!)
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:17 ?AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
> >
> >
> >I'm still trying to figure out my recent problems with X (which
> >were cured eventually by a reinstall) and I may have found a
> >clue. I again experienced some of the same symptoms, though not
> >nearly so bad this time. And it happened in a situation very
> >similar to the one a few days ago.
> >
> >There are at least two factors that were the same on both
> >occasions: I had booted into OS 9 and I had performed an
> >operation that created large files that nearly filled up my
> >hard drive. When I tried to boot back into X (this time 2.1.3),
> >I found that my desktop was unstable. The icons and the date
> >and time on the right side of the menu bar were flashing on and
> >off; my desktop icons had resized themselves to the default
> >size (I had set them at 32x32) and the dock had returned to its
> >default size and it was no longer hidden.
> >
> >Before the operation that nearly filled up my hard drive
> >(postscripting some Quark pages that had large graphic links),
> >I had about 1.0 GB of free space (on an 18.6 GB drive). After
> >creating the new files I had about 135 MB of space left. This
> >was the case each time that I encountered the problem.
> >
> >This time my system seemed to work more or less normally with
> >the exception of the weird desktop stuff mentioned above, so I
> >immediately deleted about 500 MB worth of files -- and
> >immediately after doing so, my date, time and menu bar icons
> >reappeared and no longer flashed on and off. I reset my icons
> >and dock to their previous settings and restarted, and
> >everything seems to be working fine now.
> >
> >It appears that, on my system at least, OS X gets real cranky
> >when I don't leave it plenty of hard drive space to play with.
> >Any idea why that might be the case? X doesn't have a virtual
> >memory setting like previous versions did, but I'm wondering if
> >it doesn't reserve some hard drive space for use as virtual
> >memory. I have 512 MB of RAM, if that makes any difference.
> >
> >Any thoughts on this?
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >
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