Hello, I have a serious problem with my swap file on my 10.6 server. My server is creating swap files that are 1.06 GB each! and it will keep creating these files until it uses all available disc space which is around 40GB. At that moment, the server will basically crash. Has anyone seen this before? I have 2GB memory, could they be bad?
thanks!
I was having a similar problem on one of my servers. We temporarily got round it by pre-emptively rebooting every few days before it ran out of space.
We 'fixed' it by installing the 10.6.8 v1.1 Combo Server update when it came out. Nothing in the update notes said it was relevant to this and our other servers did not have this problem. However it worked for me. We had been running 10.6.4 (you don't say what exact version you are running). I had skipped 10.6.5 etc. because supposedly they had even worse ACL security problems as a file server.
Hmmm, I will try that. We are on 10.6.7. I'll let you know how it goes.
I have the same problem. I hav 62 swap files weighing in at 1.07GB EACH!! When i run multiple applications it says its running out of memory even though theres 100GB left on my hard drive. Im running 10.6.8. I did a reboot about a week ago and it deleted all the swap files but one, which is great, but now they've gradually built back up again and i dont kno what to do. i dont want to have to reboot every few days to be able to use my computer. any suggestions?
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dunne89 wrote:
I have the same problem. I hav 62 swap files weighing in at 1.07GB EACH!! When i run multiple applications it says its running out of memory even though theres 100GB left on my hard drive. Im running 10.6.8. I did a reboot about a week ago and it deleted all the swap files but one, which is great, but now they've gradually built back up again and i dont kno what to do. i dont want to have to reboot every few days to be able to use my computer. any suggestions?
As mentioned, what cured it for me was installing the 10.6.8 version 1.1 combo update. Even if you have already previously upgraded to 10.6.8 nothing prevents you re-running this combo update. You can download it from here http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1402
It is normal for VM usage to grow over time especially if the computer is running a number of apps, but my previous problem was using up space far faster than normal and is now back to normal after running the combo update.
Swap file keeps increasing until out of space
