Whilst there might me some unix hackery you can do to reduce the size of your swapfile, you should consider it essential - it is your virtual memory, allowing applications to use more memory than your physical memory allows. Hence 'vm'. You shall have to find space elsewhere, I'm afraid!
Ed Derek Cross wrote: > Good morning smuggers, > I'm trying to free up some space on my hard disk. I notice that I have > 2.64GB devoted to "vm" which contains folders entitled "swapfile". Can > I delete these safely or will something terrible happen if I do! > I attach a screenshot. > Thanks Derek > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
