<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The unix command 'lsof' will give you a list of what processes have files open, if that's any help.<div>You might need to find an option to exclude sockets and network ports, etc.</div><div><div><br><div><div>On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:16, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">this is what i've just seen:<div>terminal has detected that the system disk is running low on swap space. Scrollback buffers may automatically be trimmed to conserve memory.</div><div><br></div><div>now to find how to do this...</div><div><br></div><div>mc</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><span><lowdiskspace.jpg></span></div><div><br><div><div>On 19 Dec 2011, at 17:01, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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...<div>oh and spotlight is indexing the drive - but does it need 7gigs for this operation?</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>mc<br><div><div>On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:55, Chris Andrews wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">I have never seen anything like this on any Mac I have ever used.<div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div>
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<span><div><div><div>Ok this is really nasty:</div><div>doing nothing seemingly and i'm getting low disk errors - disk neraly full</div><div><br></div><div>it's gone from 6gigs to 1 to in three minutes down to 992.2 mb</div><div><br></div><div>is anyone else seeing space taken like this over the course of a few hours??</div><div><br></div><div>just to reality check...</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>mc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 18 Dec 2011, at 17:45, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>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 </div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>- 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 </div><div><br></div><div>so that's another culprit.</div><div><br></div><div>will look at running fewer aps and tabs when putting hte mac to sleep to see if that makes a dif.</div><div><br></div><div>of course a 500+gig drive would be nice too. </div><div><br></div><div>mc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:49, Hugh Glaser wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Interesting - maybe this is it.</div><div><br></div><div>I have</div><div>alias ll ls -lh</div><div><br></div><div>On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:38, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Hi hugh</div><div><br></div><div>thanks for this</div><div><br></div><div>mine seems similar to yours:</div><div><br></div><div>hockeypuck:~ mc$ ls -al /private/var/vm </div><div>total 16777216</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 11 root wheel 374 16 Dec 16:54 .</div><div>drwxr-xr-x 29 root wheel 986 13 Aug 15:16 ..</div><div>-rw------T 1 root wheel 4294967296 16 Dec 09:35 sleepimage</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 67108864 14 Dec 16:02 swapfile0</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 67108864 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile1</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile2</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 268435456 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile3</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 536870912 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile4</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile5</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile6</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile7</div><div><br></div><div>(do you have a switch to see the units of file space as G/M rather than bits?)</div><div><br></div><div>mc</div><div><br></div><div>On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:34, Hugh Glaser wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>Rover:/private/var/vm] hg% ll</div><div>total 14680064</div><div>-rw------T 1 root wheel 4.0G 16 Dec 13:10 sleepimage</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 64M 16 Dec 18:00 swapfile0</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 64M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile1</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 128M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile2</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 256M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile3</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 512M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile4</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1.0G 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile5</div><div>-rw------- 1 root wheel 1.0G 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile6</div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Hugh Glaser, </div><div> Web and Internet Science</div><div> Electronics and Computer Science,</div><div> University of Southampton,</div><div> Southampton SO17 1BJ</div><div>Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045</div><div>Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652</div><div><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/</a></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></span>
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