Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)
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? -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] <[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>
Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)
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...!)
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. -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] <[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>
Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)
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 --- schmidt-systemdevelopment http://www.schmidt-system.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +81-736-56-3905 --- 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 > > >-- >Olaf Druemmer | Managing Director >callas software gmbh | Schoenhauser Allee 6/7 | Berlin | Germany >Tel +49.30.44 39 03 10 | Fax +49.30.4 41 64 02 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.callassoftware.com >-- >Visit www.PDFcity.com - the free online PDF preflighting service > > >
Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)
Olaf Drümmer wrote: >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. The problem is probably that size of the message database plus the size of the address database exceed 2 GB; in this case, quit PM, remove the address database file from the PowerMail folder, relaunch PM to compact the database, then quit and restore the address database file. I will fix this in the final 5.1 release. Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering - "The Foxtrot-based search function really screams! No matter how convoluted the search, Foxtrot returns a result in less than a second (pretty impressive for 13K+ messages, a 60MB message DB, on a 500MHz G4 Laptop)." PowerMail user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
