[snip...] >---- > >I found one interesting thing out while taking a rare leisurely stroll >through the undergrowth of my Mac. Apple seems to keep its swap file >[using the hard drive as extra memory for emergencies] in /var/vm/. I seem >to have 2 64M ones and a 128M one. Wonder why, the one thing this laptop >shouldn't need more of is memory.
It seems that Panther has a big appetite for swap files. I typically have the same 256M of swap files. Today the swap files are out of hand: 2x64M, 1x128M, 1x256M, and 1x512M, for a total of 1G of swap. I have a sneaking suspicion that garbage collecting is not being done properly. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
