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

[Chris Andrews]

I have never seen anything like this on any Mac I have ever used.

Chris 


On Monday, 19 December 2011 at 16:54, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> Ok this is really nasty:
> doing nothing seemingly and i'm getting low disk errors - disk neraly full
> 
> it's gone from 6gigs to 1 to in three minutes down to 992.2 mb
> 
> is anyone else seeing space taken like this over the course of a few hours??
> 
> just to reality check...
> 
> thanks
> 
> mc
> 
> 
> On 18 Dec 2011, at 17:45, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
> 
> > On the quest for space hogs, also found that mobile sync (in library/application support/mobile sync) iOS device backups were getting fiercly large. Doing a restore will also replicate a backup - one of mine is nine gigs 
> > 
> > indeed, doing a restore burned up the remainder of space on the harddrive giving a "cannot write back up to this computer" or similar. error
> > 
> > - i think a lot of that is from the library of pdf's in goodreader - but i'd love a way to find out what exactly is in the backup files 
> > 
> > so that's another culprit.
> > 
> > will look at running fewer aps and tabs when putting hte mac to sleep to see if that makes a dif.
> > 
> > of course a 500+gig drive would be nice too. 
> > 
> > mc
> > 
> > 
> > On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:49, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> > 
> > > Interesting - maybe this is it.
> > > 
> > > I have
> > > alias ll ls -lh
> > > 
> > > On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:38, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > 
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