Muliple Swap files on Lombard running Panther 10.3.9

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Muliple Swap files on Lombard running Panther 10.3.9

My PB since yesterday notify out of memory.

Checking the system, i find the Kernel is using 500 Mb sharing three different swap files. The HD have 2 Gb free, but the kernel left only 475 Mb free.

Any have any information about it?

How to fix it.

Posted on Sep 16, 2005 3:38 PM

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Answer 1

Niel

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Sep 16, 2005 8:10 PM in response to Community User

If you don't have enough RAM available on your machine to store all the processes which are open, Mac OS X will create swapfiles as needed. Quitting enough applications to give your machine a significant pool of free memory will make one or more of the swapfiles disappear after about two minutes. Restarting your machine will clear all of the swapfiles and release the hard disk space they took up. To check the number and size of the swapfiles on your system, choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and type or paste in /private/var/vm as the folder's location. There may be one 80MB swapfile in this folder regardless of memory usage.

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Answer 2

Sep 23, 2005 8:47 PM in response to Community User

Hello Niel;

Thanks. But the RAM wasn't the responsible. I download Virex 7,5 Beta. This nasty software produce strange processes. First, change the password for the Root user. Converts me to an user without administrator privileges. And generates a Process that consumes a great amount of Virtual Memory.

Using Net Info Manager and Terminal fix the problem. And after delete all the files relatives to Virex, all works fine again, and I have 2 Gb free in the HD.

Be careful with Virex Beta in Panther at less.

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