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Disk memory black hole! Something hidden writes to HD (Snow Leopard)
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<blockquote data-quote="sybawi" data-source="post: 1579503" data-attributes="member: 309538"><p>Yes, that sounds like what I meant with asking earlier how to stop/limit swap.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I'm now running only in safe mode (normal mode just got c.o.m.p.l.e.t.e.l.y. stuck) so the answer <em>should</em> be 'no'.</p><p></p><p>But just before all of this started to get truly dramatic, I installed an update to Bjango's iStat Menu, which I usually run continuously to monitor the system. I remember that after that, it did not reload itself properly (it puts a set of meters in the menu bar above, quite handy; now it didn't) which by then I ignored for a sec, too busy with something else. Now I suspect perhaps that program did not 'close' itself when the computer eventually went to sleep (the sleep that it never woke properly from).</p><p></p><p>So, I plugged the laptop as a target disc again, and deleted that program and the folders I found in the library (in application support in this case). After deleting all the trash, I'm now starting it up once more in safe mode to see if it makes any difference. Fingers crossed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sybawi, post: 1579503, member: 309538"] Yes, that sounds like what I meant with asking earlier how to stop/limit swap. Well, I'm now running only in safe mode (normal mode just got c.o.m.p.l.e.t.e.l.y. stuck) so the answer [I]should[/I] be 'no'. But just before all of this started to get truly dramatic, I installed an update to Bjango's iStat Menu, which I usually run continuously to monitor the system. I remember that after that, it did not reload itself properly (it puts a set of meters in the menu bar above, quite handy; now it didn't) which by then I ignored for a sec, too busy with something else. Now I suspect perhaps that program did not 'close' itself when the computer eventually went to sleep (the sleep that it never woke properly from). So, I plugged the laptop as a target disc again, and deleted that program and the folders I found in the library (in application support in this case). After deleting all the trash, I'm now starting it up once more in safe mode to see if it makes any difference. Fingers crossed. [/QUOTE]
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