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An hour or there (that's how long it took me to get these forums to work under OS 10.4.11) I opened a 13 MB PDF in preview, did a search for a particular word... and everything froze. Could not kill an excerpt, couldn't leave the other apps, the Finder can not pass for a minute. Then I got the pop up "your startup disk is almost full.

Indeed, the boot disk WAS full - getinfo showed ZERO MEGS AVAILABLE. It is seriously messed up. Can someone tell me what happened? And, who wrote an app (preview) that would do something like that? This is beyond sick.

Fill my boot drive (there was about 1 GB free before that) included writing thousands of files, of which many were stored on a temporary 300 MB RAMdisk. Why... ? BECAUSE I DIDN'T DEVELOP THOUSANDS OF SMALL FILES ON A PHYSICAL HARD DRIVE!  Use of the RAM (in Activity Monitor) went from 302 MB to about 4 MB, and a free space on my boot drive went from 900 MB 0 MB. It is ZERO. That's why Preview himself used somehow 600 MB.

At this point I * could * have answered my own question - opening a small PDF in preview and search for the letter 'e' has seized about 30 MB (5813 occurrences of 'e'). Incredible, but it is conceivable that in a PDF 10 times this size, it might have caught 300 MB or maybe 600... ??  If this is the cause, which is the pathetic MacOS Preview application in which she begins searching as soon as you start typing, problem solved. Type faster, or well cut and paste your search term (how sick is it to have to do that?). Because if you are a slow typist, or start typing right now hurt, it's going to start looking for an own f * kin' letter, e.g. 'e' instead of the word "elephant".

But found again shouldn't take more than 600 MB and I am not convinced that was the cause. Has anyone else had this problem (I guess)?

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Mac OS X, like all modern operating systems, has a virtual memory system that uses space on the startup disk.  The amount of storage space used for this virtual machine "pagefile" depends on whether the system is.

1 GB of free space on your startup disk is MUCH too low.  You must have at least 10% free space (or more).  In addition, as the available free space goes down lower and lower, which is always available free space becomes more fragmented.  This can severely affect performance because the system tries to write to its VM file spread (into small pieces) all over your hard drive media.  It can even speed up hard drive failure.

Thus, it is unlikely that the Preview (the application) used up to 600 MB of disk space by opening a PDF file.  The overall operating system was what she does and allocated more space for virtual memory, according to the needs.  When you start up the Mac, the amount originally used by the virtual memory is low.  But it can reach several GBs in size that you use your Mac for different tasks.  If your Mac has low physical RAM, still more disk space gets used by virtual memory.

You need to free more space on your startup disk, to allow the BONE function effectively.  Get an external drive, to unload rarely used files.

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