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Available Disk Space Constantly in Flux w/ APFS, High Sierra
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<blockquote data-quote="lehestro" data-source="post: 1783876" data-attributes="member: 98792"><p>Thanks for the response, I appreciate it, but you misunderstand. I'm aware of the need for disk caching/memory swapping, but this is something else entirely. I have a 500GB hard drive that has about 350GB of data on it. Despite that, often times, without any major accruing or deleting of data, my available disk space will read as anything from 5GB to the proper 150GB available. These are HUGE fluctuations – way more than memory swapping would account for (as it stands I have 64GB of memory, so not much swapping occurs anyhow). These fluctuations occur at random, and change very quickly – it'll report 40GB of free space, and 2 minutes later 120GB of free space, and then will go back down again.</p><p></p><p>I know I can't be the only person experiencing this, but haven't really been able to find much about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lehestro, post: 1783876, member: 98792"] Thanks for the response, I appreciate it, but you misunderstand. I'm aware of the need for disk caching/memory swapping, but this is something else entirely. I have a 500GB hard drive that has about 350GB of data on it. Despite that, often times, without any major accruing or deleting of data, my available disk space will read as anything from 5GB to the proper 150GB available. These are HUGE fluctuations – way more than memory swapping would account for (as it stands I have 64GB of memory, so not much swapping occurs anyhow). These fluctuations occur at random, and change very quickly – it'll report 40GB of free space, and 2 minutes later 120GB of free space, and then will go back down again. I know I can't be the only person experiencing this, but haven't really been able to find much about it. [/QUOTE]
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