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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 896685" data-attributes="member: 24160">It could be a dying drive.It could be due to having a full drive.It could be a memory leak of some app or any number of other things.&nbsp; My bet, is on the first two.I would suggest immediately, if not sooner, back up your drive.One thing you might try, and only because your drive was full is a defrag.I have not had to do this on any of my OS X drives, but most recommendations are for iDefrag.&nbsp; It's not free, and this may or may not help.&nbsp; You can download it, run it and check the current fragmentation percentage before paying for it.General rule of thumb for everyone - never allow a system partition get to the point of less than 15% free space.&nbsp; You are asking for problems.&nbsp; Keep my own at 20-25% minimum.&nbsp; I recommend even more for Leopard as it will use up to 60 GB of virtual memory if you allow it the room to do so.&nbsp; Don't know about SL yet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 896685, member: 24160"] It could be a dying drive. It could be due to having a full drive. It could be a memory leak of some app or any number of other things. My bet, is on the first two. I would suggest immediately, if not sooner, back up your drive. One thing you might try, and only because your drive was full is a defrag. I have not had to do this on any of my OS X drives, but most recommendations are for iDefrag. It's not free, and this may or may not help. You can download it, run it and check the current fragmentation percentage before paying for it. General rule of thumb for everyone - never allow a system partition get to the point of less than 15% free space. You are asking for problems. Keep my own at 20-25% minimum. I recommend even more for Leopard as it will use up to 60 GB of virtual memory if you allow it the room to do so. Don't know about SL yet. [/QUOTE]

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