I just left my computer on over night downloading stuff with acquisition. When i woke up the hard drive was thrashing like hell.
It took about 45 seconds to show me the desktop (from screen saver) and there was a system message saying i had run out of hard disk space and i had best close windows and start quitting applications or system performace will suffer.
The message didn't say exactly that but it was along those lines.
Luckly i still had top running in the background and i could see that Acquisitions VSIZE was 2.92GB...
Rather large i thought.
I checked in /var/vm and there were 39 swwap files and my hard drive had 20Mb space left - Normally 3Gb.
I managed to force quit acquisition (after 15 seconds or so of waiting for the force quit dialog) then ran periodic daily to remove some of the swap files. There are still 14 swapfiles now but system performace is normal now. I am going to do a
restart
anyway.
This post is half rant half warning to other acquisition users about this problem.
Anyone else experienced this?