Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-10-01 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Mikael Byström / 04.10.1 / 7:11PM wrote: I'm not sure this is the case with Panther. At least I have had MenuMeters say that I had fewer VM files present than the number of VM files at peak usage, indicating they had been removed automatically by the OS. VM works much better in Panther than in

Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-10-01 Thread Mikael Byström
A-NO-NE Music said: As far as I know, there is no way of purging vm stack under OSX other than reboot, which is one of my biggest gripes of OSX. What you saw probably was cache file of your camera program. But when vm stack accumulates, the available disk space also reduces so you will notice

Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-09-30 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Matthias Schmidt / 04.9.30 / 2:02AM wrote: It's the vm file for the virtual memory. Some programs don't manage memory well, in my case it was the camera software. Quitting the program solved the problem. As far as I know, there is no way of purging vm stack under OSX other than reboot, which

Re: I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-09-30 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Olaf, recently I had a simular situation. It's the vm file for the virtual memory. Some programs don't manage memory well, in my case it was the camera software. Quitting the program solved the problem. I also suspected Powermail having a memory leak, but meanwhile I think I was wrong. All the

I'm stuck: The disk is almost full (but it is not...!)

2004-09-30 Thread Olaf Drümmer
Hi, just was about to compact my database, but get the message The disk is almost full. There is currently 2048 MB free, and compacting requires about 2049 MB. and cannot go on and compact. The actual disk space available is roughly 3.5 GB. I believe this is a bug in PowerMail (signed 32 bit