On May 27, 1:54 pm, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote:
> I upgraded an old G3 iBook with too little HD free space to Safari 4
> about 3 weeks ago. I rarely use this iBook, so I was being careful,
> and making due with about 1 GB free space for Tiger 10.4.11. Yesterday
> things literally ground to a halt, and I immediately checked the HD
> free space. It was ZERO.
>
> I freaked, and did everything I could think of to trash items and only
> managed to clear 136 MB doing EVERYTHING I could think of. Then a saw
> these articles about Safari 4 bloat:
>
> <http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/05/23/1747241/>
>
> <http://www.thrica.com/archives/352>
>
> It seems that Safari 4 filled my 1 GB free space in just a couple
> weeks, and I barely use this computer. I have uninstalled Safari 4 on
> this iBook and started to recover some space from these hidden caches,
> but this is a real shocker. I'm wishing I'd never installed Safari 4
> on this iBook.
Firefox is better anyway. you can set preferences to clear data on
quit w/ confirmation.
With any browser though, you should be able to limit the sizes of the
caches, or even turn them off.
Don't forget the VM (virtual memory) files though either, they are
used by the system. If you are low on RAM (less than 512MB for everday
use with Tiger), these files will take up a lot of space.
Look in /private/var/vm (if you can't see this you may have to use a
third party tool to turn hiding off or use the Terminal app). Also
slowing your computer down greatly.
Wearing out the hd both from overfilling and from lots of VM. The
former because less writing in contiguous blocks (like with lots small
browser cache files) - overworking the head movements.
A newer hd can also *greatly* improve performance of an old 'book.
Stock/ oem hard drives usually perform at much much less than the
rated capacity of the bus. maybe four times faster w/ a recent hd.
Smaller ones are pretty cheap too, even new (the newer the better
mostly).
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