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?
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