Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-10-01 Thread A-NO-NE Music

Mikael Byström / 04.10.1 / 7:11PM wrote:

I'm not sure this is the case with Panther. At least I have had
MenuMeters say that I had fewer VM files present than the number of VM
files at peak usage, indicating they had been removed automatically by
the OS. VM works much better in Panther than in earlier versions IMHO.

You are right.  I just checked, and vm seems to be dynamic.  However, I
was unable to bring them back to 1 (default) after 6 stacks.  It went
down to 3 and doesn't go lower even I left it idle with no app running,
and no vm is called according to Activity Monitor.  I remember I used
Snap-something on Solaris for purging long time ago.  Does anyone know such?

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Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-10-01 Thread Mikael Byström

A-NO-NE Music said:

As far as I know, there is no way of purging vm stack under OSX other
than reboot, which is one of my biggest gripes of OSX.  What you saw
probably was cache file of your camera program.

But when vm stack accumulates, the available disk space also reduces so
you will notice you have no room left.

I'm not sure this is the case with Panther. At least I have had
MenuMeters say that I had fewer VM files present than the number of VM
files at peak usage, indicating they had been removed automatically by
the OS. VM works much better in Panther than in earlier versions IMHO.
 
Anyone know exactly what changes there have been?
PM 5.0.1 | OS X 10.3.5 | Powerbook G4/400 | 768 MB RAM | 30 GB HD






Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-09-30 Thread A-NO-NE Music

Matthias Schmidt / 04.9.30 / 2:02AM wrote:

It's the vm file for the virtual memory.
Some programs don't manage memory well, in my case it was the camera
software.
Quitting the program solved the problem.


As far as I know, there is no way of purging vm stack under OSX other
than reboot, which is one of my biggest gripes of OSX.  What you saw
probably was cache file of your camera program.

But when vm stack accumulates, the available disk space also reduces so
you will notice you have no room left.

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Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-09-30 Thread Matthias Schmidt

Olaf,

recently I had a simular situation. It's the vm file for the virtual memory.
Some programs don't manage memory well, in my case it was the camera software.
Quitting the program solved the problem.
I also suspected Powermail having a memory leak, but meanwhile I think I
was wrong.

All the best

Matthias

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Am/On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:41:41 +0200 schrieb/wrote Olaf Drümmer:

Hi,

just was about to compact my database, but get the message The disk is
almost full.   There is currently 2048 MB free, and compacting requires
about 2049 MB. and cannot go on and compact.

The actual disk space available is roughly 3.5 GB.

I believe this is a bug in PowerMail (signed 32 bit integer is just about
2048 MB, and it seems PowerMail just can't deal properly with something
above this).

Does anyone have an idea how to work around this bug?

Olaf


PS: Using PowerMail 5.0 on OS/X 10.3.4


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I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-09-30 Thread Olaf Drümmer

Hi,

just was about to compact my database, but get the message The disk is
almost full.   There is currently 2048 MB free, and compacting requires
about 2049 MB. and cannot go on and compact.

The actual disk space available is roughly 3.5 GB.

I believe this is a bug in PowerMail (signed 32 bit integer is just about
2048 MB, and it seems PowerMail just can't deal properly with something
above this).

Does anyone have an idea how to work around this bug?

Olaf


PS: Using PowerMail 5.0 on OS/X 10.3.4


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