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Diskwarrior made extra swap file?
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Mar 5, 2004, 06:18 AM
 
Ok so this may not have been disk warrior but I noticed it a day after I ran it for the first time. So I have Menu Meters and have the memory meter up. in It's drop down menu it says I have 2 swap files at peak usage total swap space at 128MB(I've never seen them not at "peak"). Before I swear had only one that was at 64MB.

I really dont know much about swap files and am hoping this isn't a bad thing. I only got menu meters really for Bandwith usage meter. The memory thing was just curiosity.

Anyway can anyone enlighten me as to whats going on. (Or if this should be in someother forum.)
     
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Mar 5, 2004, 11:42 AM
 
OS X creates swap files whenever it needs to. It could have happened at some other point during the last day. If you don't have a ton of RAM, and you keep a lot of apps open at once, or use a memory hog like Photoshop, you'll get quite a few after a while. (2 swap files is just no big deal) Just keep an eye on your available hard drive space-- if it gets below a few hundred meg, things will get weird.

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