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

[Marcus Cobden]

The unix command 'lsof' will give you a list of what processes have files open, if that's any help.
You might need to find an option to exclude sockets and network ports, etc.

On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:16, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> this is what i've just seen:
> terminal has detected that the system disk is running low on swap space. Scrollback buffers may automatically be trimmed to conserve memory.
> 
> now to find how to do this...
> 
> mc
> 
> 
> <lowdiskspace.jpg>
> 
> On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:01, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
> 
>> anyone know how one might see what aps are using disk space? not processes but disk space? it's down another 200megs as we speak...
>> oh and spotlight is indexing the drive - but does it need 7gigs for this operation?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> mc
>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:55, Chris Andrews wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Hugh Glaser,
>>>>>> Web and Internet Science
>>>>>> Electronics and Computer Science,
>>>>>> University of Southampton,
>>>>>> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>>>>>> Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045
>>>>>> Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652
>>>>>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/
>>> 
>> 
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