swap files
hi,
i searched the forums but no real info or solution about this.
before i had no such problem, it all began 3 weeks ago and without any reason i can think of.
Machine: Mac pro 12Gb ram, disk free space 80Gb. lion all updates done.
what happens is sometimes osx pops up a force quit window repeatedly.
i managed to find possible reason: 59GB of swap files ?!
always had large swap files and a 1-1 size for the sleepimage/RAM amount
but this is absurd.. 62 swapfiles og 1GB ?! seriously,
how do i clear that up? avoid it to happen again? (except from buying additional HD ... lol)
thnx for advices.
ame235.
the output of ls /private/var/vm/
[11:15][xxx@xxx] /private/var/vm > ls
total 148897792
drwxr-xr-x 66 root wheel 2244 May 16 11:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel 1020 Mar 2 10:49 ../
-rw------T 1 root wheel 12884901888 Apr 23 15:26 sleepimage
-rw------- 1 root wheel 67108864 May 16 11:15 swapfile0
-rw------- 1 root wheel 67108864 May 16 11:15 swapfile1
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile10
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile11
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile12
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile13
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile14
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile15
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile16
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile17
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile18
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile19
-rw------- 1 root wheel 134217728 May 16 11:15 swapfile2
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile20
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile21
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile22
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile23
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile24
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile25
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile26
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile27
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile28
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile29
-rw------- 1 root wheel 268435456 May 16 11:15 swapfile3
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile30
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile31
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile32
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile33
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile34
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile35
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile36
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile37
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile38
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile39
-rw------- 1 root wheel 536870912 May 16 11:15 swapfile4
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile40
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile41
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile42
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile43
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile44
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile45
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile46
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile47
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile48
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile49
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile5
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile50
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile51
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile52
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile53
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile54
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile55
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile56
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile57
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile58
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile59
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile6
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile60
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile61
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile62
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile7
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile8
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1073741824 May 16 11:15 swapfile9