Memory leak from Entourage?

G

Garrett Ewald

My system has more than 1gig free on the hard drive, but after I've had
Entourage, and maybe Safari open for a while I suddenly start getting
warnings that my hard drive is full. And yes, it shows as having only single
digit megabytes of space left. I have vague memories of Entourage causing
this problem. Is there a fix for it?

Garrett
 
M

matt neuburg

Garrett Ewald said:
My system has more than 1gig free on the hard drive, but after I've had
Entourage, and maybe Safari open for a while I suddenly start getting
warnings that my hard drive is full. And yes, it shows as having only single
digit megabytes of space left. I have vague memories of Entourage causing
this problem. Is there a fix for it?
Click to expand...

This has nothing to do with Entourage directly. Nor is this necessarily
a "memory leak". You have two problems: (1) 1 gig is not really enough
free space (really!), and (2) you don't have enough RAM for what you do.
In Mac OS X, an application uses all the memory it needs, even if it is
more than the size of the RAM. The virtual memory system spills the
extra needed space onto your hard disk, and that is what is occupying
your hard disk. My freeware application, MemoryStick, will show you this
happening by displaying your RAM as it fills up and by counting your
"swapfiles" for you and telling you how much space on disk they are
occupying. Once you've convinced yourself that's the problem, get more
RAM, free up some more space on the hard disk, and restart the computer
more often (every day, let's say) to delete the swapfiles, and you'll be
fine. m.
 
Top