Panther virt mem...

Tråden skapades 2004-04-28 och har fått 3 svar. Det senaste inlägget skrevs 2004-04-29.

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2004-04-28 11:36

#1

Gäst
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2004-04-28 11:36

High;

What's up with Panther's virtual memory handling? I empty the trash can and lose hard disk space instead of gain? How do i regain disk space without having to reboot? I'm running Panther on a G3 Powerbook with 192 megs of ram.

Thanks;

JPW

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2004-04-28 22:24

#2

Ulf H
Medlem ●
2004-04-28 22:24

Are you using FileVault ? If then then the diskspace will be re-used when you logoff your account. You will get an option about compressing the Filevault disk image. That could be one reason

Secondly.. 192MB is really low. Could be that you machine swaps out memory to disk. Use the terminal and do

du -k /var/vm

and you get the amount of diskspace that is used for swapping out processes to disk in KB.

Alternativly you can do

ls -l /var/vm

and manual sum up the bytes used for virtual swap files.

Even though there are som utlities that can clear out those swap files from the disk , it's not recommended since
in worst case something is in those files that an open program has a reference to. (This programs like normally
warns about this and recommends a reboot)

KInd Rgds
/Ulf

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2004-04-29 03:18

#3

Gäst
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2004-04-29 03:18

Thanks for your help. I have another small problem. It seems that i don't have the admin password for my system. I set up an admin account with password that works for everything except the terminal. For instance, i can't do "sudo" or any of the commands i would need to execute from the terminal. How did it happen that my admin password and my "root" password are not the same?

Thanks again;

JPW

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2004-04-29 03:46

#4

johan dansk
Medlem ●
2004-04-29 03:46

the sudo system is supposed to work that way, so you can give administrators system access without giving them your password (though, they can still pretty much do the same things). So whenever you're issuing commands using sudo you have to give your account password, not the root password..