I don't know if it is relevant but I've experienced loss of OS X preferences
for Mail periodically. It occurs mainly when I'm using a number of applications
but particularly Safari and Mail which seem to be memory hungry and when I've only (!!)
had around 500MB free disk space on the system partition. Presumably the number of swap
files (each is about 76MB) in /var/vm keeps increasing to use up all disk space on the
system partition and then Mail cannot save back preferences properly. Perhaps this happens
also for other application preferences.
I'm currently running OS X 10.2.6 on a Pismo/400Mhz/512MB/40GB with 5 partitions:
12GB main partition with OSX/OS9; 6GB partition with previous OSX version; 2 8GB partitions
for data and a 3GB partition for temporary stuff (now stuffed with music files!).
It would be nice if (like "real Unix systems" 8-) ) that the virtual memory swap files
could be put in a separate partition (at least from the system files) which would then
not cause this problem. Of course one is RAM limited by the disk space on the swap partition
but that is how it should be. I wonder if anybody has tried this.
Adios Harry.
PS. Digression ... I used to run a fleet of IBM RT PC's while postdocing in Sweden
in the late 80's and most of them only had a 75MB hard disk in addition to having only a 5 1/4"
disk drive for installing system files etc. I was kind of proud to be able to pare back the
system (e.g. AIX 1.x, AIX 2.x, AIX 3.1) enough that of 75MB there was 25-30MB for user files
and one still had two different Fortran compilers, two editors (emacs, vi), a TeX system, a
graphics package, and the base Unix system (with c compiler). However, the step up to X-windows
was the big one, and though could be squeezed into 75MB, the advent of a 315MB disk made things
much more comfortable ... and to think I now have 2x256MB=512MB RAM (a pity the 512MB modules were
a bit pricey two years ago ... Oz aint as cheap as the USA for many computer things!).
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 05:05 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 29, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 29/03/04 12:32, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Our sole gripe with OS X is the way it dumps the prefs without warning now and then, and loses data.
I'm curious. I've been running OS X since it came out (starting with the
public beta back in 2001) and I've never experienced loss of data of any
kind on 3 different Macintosh.
Me either, and this is not an issue that has affected the some 30-odd Macs running OSX here...
Something's odd with that system.
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