On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Sam Kuper wrote:
On 17 February 2010 17:45, Bradley Giesbrecht <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Feb 17, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Sam Kuper wrote:
On 17 February 2010 15:33, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Sam Kuper wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 14:59, Sam Kuper wrote:
> The latter command has got as far as "---> Building boost" but
seems now to be stuck there and is now simply eating hard drive
space. I had 3.03GB free hard disk space when I ran the command, and
now, 20 minutes later, have only 1.09GB free and this is decreasing
by 0.01GB every few seconds.
>
> I should clarify that for the majority of the 20 minutes mentioned
(approx. 19 minutes), the command was stuck at "---> Building
boost". After around 40 minutes, with a bit over 0.7GB of HDD space
remaining, the command printed the line "---> Staging boost into
destroot" to the Terminal. HDD space is, however, continuing to
decrease at about the same rate.
Check /var/vm and see if you're just running out of RAM and
generating large amounts of swap.
Thanks Daniel,
I had to use Ctrl+C to stop "sudo port upgrade outdated" from
running, as it reached the point where the Finder was saying "Zero
KB free". Then I ran "sudo port clean boost" to get some of my HDD
back! It immediately went up to 2.33GB free.
Now, I've just had a look in /var/vm . It contains a dozen swapfiles
of 67108864 bytes each, plus a sleepimage file of 2147483648 bytes.
I've no idea whether this is normal or not, though: I've never
looked in that directory before.
Also, I don't see a way to tell whether the swapfiles are from
running the "sudo port upgrade outdated" command except perhaps by
looking at the timestamps. The latter do correspond to times when
"sudo port upgrade outdated" was running.
I have 2GB RAM installed and the only other thing running was
Firefox 3.6 (and, while I was seeking help on IRC, Colloquy).
Any ideas about how I should proceed?
What is the command are you using to install boost?
I was using "sudo port upgrade outdated".
Are you selecting variants?
No, I was just using the command above.
Verifying your disk with Disk Utility:
Now that I've got rid of boost, I've run "sudo port upgrade
outdated" again and seems to be running OK now, touch wood: not
eating up HDD space like before. Once that finishes running, I'll
try verifying the disk with Disk Utility.
3GB is not a lot of disk but you know that.
Yep, I've got a big Windows Vista Boot Camp partition hogging most
of the HDD. I intend to resize that at some point, or else replace
it with Win XP or Win 7 to slim it down, but haven't had the chance
to do so yet.
Yes, I got rid of my boot camp partition and moved to vmware fusion on
my laptop do to disk space. The dynamic resizing of the virtual
machine image reduces wasted space. This also allows for the temporary
moving of your virtual machine image to external storage when a
temporary need for system disk arises.
Boot Camp is nice for some things (games) but I have found more
advantages with virtual machines. I don't play computer games. If I
did and needed windows I'd just setup a windows game machine.
// Brad
// Brad
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