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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

Posted on May 16, 2012 2:31 AM

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