Hard drive space, every second another MBytes the dust
So, I just updated to 10.5.5, and seem to be having some problems with a really wierd bug. I run a gen 1 MacBook, 1Ghz CoreDuo with 2Gb Rab and 60Gb hard drive. Upon start up my hard drive reads at 4.6 Gb available, however, for every second the machine is active I seem to lose space. I thought it might be swap space, but what doesn't make any sense is that in the last five minutes the only programs I've had running are Safari, iTunes and an open Finder window. Activity Monitor is listing Memory at 1.36 Gb Free, yet I my hard drive space dissappers faster and faster with the more applications I start running, even though I haven't yet gotten my physical memory maxed out, there is always atleast 100 Mb of Free memory, any ideas? Is this a known bug in 10.5.5? Thanks for any help
Just a couple of things. Running a machine with less than 10-20% free space is courting disaster since OS X uses free disk space for virtual memory to augment physical memory (RAM). Activity Monitor should show you how much disk space is allocated to vm. Your only good solution, IMO, is to off-load about 10-15 GB of data from your boot volume and run the machine with ample free space.
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