"sudo port upgrade outdated" fills HDD

[Sam Kuper]

On 17 February 2010 22:54, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > Sounds pretty normal to me. 67108864 bytes is 64MB; a dozen of them is
> 768MB.
>
> Except that they won't all be 64MB, the first two will be, the next will be
> 128MB the next 256MB, then 512MB then the rest will be 1.0GB (at least, I
> haven't seen more than 1.0GB files created)
>

Hm. When I run "ls -la /var/vm" I get:

total 5636096
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel         476 17 Feb 20:12 .
drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel         850 22 Dec  2007 ..
-rw------T   1 root  wheel  2147483648 17 Feb 22:54 sleepimage
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 04:31 swapfile0
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 14:40 swapfile1
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 19:19 swapfile10
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 14:40 swapfile2
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 15:25 swapfile3
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 15:25 swapfile4
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 15:25 swapfile5
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 15:27 swapfile6
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 15:28 swapfile7
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 15:28 swapfile8
-rw------T   1 root  wheel    67108864 17 Feb 19:19 swapfile9


Should I be worried that these swapfiles don't match the pattern you've
described?


> > As long as the amount of swap space is not larger than the amount of
> physical RAM installed in your computer, you should be fine. Once your swap
> exceeds physical RAM, things start getting slow.
>
> While that might be an ok guideline, it's really just when your working set
> exceeds the amount of physical RAM available that matters.
>

That terminology is unfamiliar to me. By "working set" do you mean the
largest of the memory requirements of the programs currently being run? Oh,
wait, got it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_set

Thanks,

Sam
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