[OSX-Users] Re: lion -or something - eating gigs?

[dr. m.c. schraefel]

Hi hugh

thanks for this

mine seems similar to yours:

hockeypuck:~ mc$ ls -al /private/var/vm 
total 16777216
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel         374 16 Dec 16:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  29 root  wheel         986 13 Aug 15:16 ..
-rw------T   1 root  wheel  4294967296 16 Dec 09:35 sleepimage
-rw-------   1 root  wheel    67108864 14 Dec 16:02 swapfile0
-rw-------   1 root  wheel    67108864 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile1
-rw-------   1 root  wheel   134217728 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile2
-rw-------   1 root  wheel   268435456 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile3
-rw-------   1 root  wheel   536870912 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile4
-rw-------   1 root  wheel  1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile5
-rw-------   1 root  wheel  1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile6
-rw-------   1 root  wheel  1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile7

(do you have a switch to see the units of file space as G/M rather than bits?)

mc

On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:34, Hugh Glaser wrote:

> Rover:/private/var/vm] hg% ll
> total 14680064
> -rw------T  1 root  wheel   4.0G 16 Dec 13:10 sleepimage
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    64M 16 Dec 18:00 swapfile0
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    64M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile1
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   128M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile2
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   256M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile3
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   512M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile4
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   1.0G 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile5
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   1.0G 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile6