Could it be a sleepimage ? On my Mini mid 2011 (running 10.6.8), there are two rather small swapfiles (67 MB each), and a huge sleepimage of 8.52 GB in "private:var:vm" Rudolf
Am 04.12.2013 um 18.46 schrieb Neil Laubenthal: > On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:41 PM, list boy <i.am.list....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file >> size, over time? >> > You can ls /private/var/vm of course…but I don’t think the actual size of the > swap files in there goes down unless you reboot in which case they get > deleted. I routinely have 4 or 5 of them in there. > > I thought I understood this stuff…but Activity Monitor shows 8.11 GB of VM > currently while I only have a 67MB and a 1GB actual swap file. Where does the > over almost 7GB of VM reside? _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk