Swap file size and tracking down the culprit

I have a new MacBook Air running Mountain Lion and I've been having problems with swap files. While the swap seems to default to 64 MB when I start, it will quickly grow to 2 GB and then the machine seems to create new files after every time I wake the machine from sleep, but the older swap files are left around until I restart. At 2 GB or so per file, this means I'm forced to restart simply to recover lost disk space. I have 8 GB of real memory, but even with 5 or 6 GB free, the swap file still grows.
Since the problem occurs even when I'm not using my computer for much else I've narrowed the four main culprits to HP printer software, Dropbox, Crashplan, and Lytro. I completely uninstalled Lytro and all its support files this morning and uninstalled the HP printer drivers. I downloaded the most recent installer from HP and did a minimal install so that the HP Print Monitor is not part of the installation.
This still leaves Crashplan, which requires Java if you are going to run the main app and then Dropbox, which has a menu component as well as background processes.
Of course, the problem could be some other service or application that has a memory leak, but I don't know how to go about diagnosing the problem. Do either Crashplan or Dropbox have known memory leak issues?
I have iCloud turned on, Time Machine is off, and Sharing is off. I use a combination of Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome for browsing, but typically only have Chrome open; but I guess there is a possibility that a plug-in is causing problems.

michy99 wrote:
ideogon wrote:
mikesd wrote:@OP: You mentioned you had a snafu with mounting in your first post. Is there any chance you dumped files into /mnt/backups when there was nothing mounted on it? If so you may have a bunch of files hidden there. Might be worth unmounting the backup partition and checking the directory to rule it out.
No, I see nothing recent in that directory (haven't used it in a while anyway). I suppose it was a simple matter of a bloated pacman cache.
I think you may have misunderstood. If you unmount /mnt/backups you should see no files at all when you list the directory. Any files which are there will be masked when the partition is mounted.
You're right. I misunderstood you, and having finally tried your suggestion I find that you were absolutely right! Thank you!! This was so perplexing me how I could not account for such a significant amount of space on such a meager partition, and this buys me a lot more time to strategize what to do with this file system
I unmounted /mnt/backups and found that 1.7 GB of files were still left over, which I was able to remove. Now my file sizes add up, except only ~ 0.5G (of a 7.8G file system), which I guess is probably the 5% that ext3 is "reserving for root"?
Anyway, I like to idea of sparing some space for being able to log into root in case I fill up my system again (it certainly came in handy this time), but how much can I reasonably reduce that amount to?

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1. is there some way to downsize file size after images are imported into Aperture? i take a ton of photos and only some are important to keep at a high resolution and i feel like i am stuck between having a huge Aperture database cluttered with lots of photos at high resolution /or/ turning down the file size and finding that i have an important image that is at a low resolution because i forgot to turn up the file size (i think these are in settings somewhere in my phone) before i took the photo or only realized later that it was important to have this image at higher resolution. if i could downsize while thinking about it in Aperture this seems like it would work.
2. does anyone keep an external copy of their images outside of the Aperture database?
thanks

hi terence,
thank you.
so can i ask if anyone is using an iphone and/or what setting(s) and/or resolution folks are using?
i guess i have a bit of a dilemma in that i take a ton of photos and i only use one at a high resolution while the others can be something as insignificant as a visual note to myself. and it kind of kills me that these could be 1.2 MB in that i have a lot of them. i sort of wish there was a way to downsample imagery since a lot of these are not so important.
anyway. yeah i guess i was wondering if folks do a referenced library or keep an extra copy as a backup (i guess i am 'embedding' images in the library but i forget what i call this in aperture) - and i have started to wonder if there is some utility to doing a referenced library or keeping a backup but this seems like overkill while at the same time a referenced library would allow me the ability to downsample images from what i can tell but i am just guessing here since i haven't tried this method.
thanks.

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