Swapfiles not released

2005-03-11 Thread Severin Crisp
For no apparent reason I find that swapfiles arising from PhotoShopCS are not released when they are no longer needed, even when I quit PhotoShop. They build up in sequence - 64MB, 64MB, 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and so on. Even with a session with many large files open this does not always

Re: Swapfiles

2004-04-18 Thread Dark Servant
. Franke Thanks for all the responses I had to this. However, my problem is not so much the swapfiles themselves but rather that they are not released so they continue to build up and only a reboot reclaims the disk space. I already have 894MB of installed RAM. Severin Crisp I wrote previou

Swapfiles

2004-04-18 Thread Severin Crisp
Thanks for all the responses I had to this. However, my problem is not so much the swapfiles themselves but rather that they are not released so they continue to build up and only a reboot reclaims the disk space. I already have 894MB of installed RAM. Severin Crisp I wrote previously

Re: Swapfiles

2004-04-17 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:29:58PM +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: > OS X won't dynamically resize the swap files, it just creates more as > necessary. And it does delete them eventually if they're no longer > used. If I remember Severin's situation correctly, the swap f

Re: Swapfiles

2004-04-17 Thread Shay Telfer
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 01:16, Dark Servant wrote: This isn't really relevant but I read something interesting aboutswapfiles I wanted to establish. Apparently creating a separatepartition for swapfiles can greatly increase performance on OS X. I'mnot sure if this is true or n

Re: Swapfiles

2004-04-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 01:16, Dark Servant wrote: > This isn't really relevant but I read something interesting > aboutswapfiles I wanted to establish. Apparently creating a > separatepartition for swapfiles can greatly increase performance on OS > X. I'mnot sure if this

Re: Swapfiles

2004-04-17 Thread Dark Servant
This isn't really relevant but I read something interesting about swapfiles I wanted to establish. Apparently creating a separate partition for swapfiles can greatly increase performance on OS X. I'm not sure if this is true or not Anyone want to input? Ruben A. Frank

Swapfiles

2004-04-16 Thread Severin Crisp
Virtual memory seems to generate a series of swapfiles in var/vm which are never released except with a reboot. They are in succession 32MB, 64MB..1GB etc with my disk space correspondingly dwindling. They belong to the system and are padlocked. How do I find the culprit and is