Space not being made after deleting files

[dave17lax]

- Yes, have restarted, though after a few hours it slowly took HD space back to zero. (Virtual memory usage increased even though the computer just sat there over night).

- I will try OnyX and see if it fits my needs, though I am referring to a bunch of old files and apps that I don't use anymore, not actual system files.

- I don't use filevault

- Does 10% free space include swap files? I do need a bigger hard drive, but 2-3 gigs of space for swap files is nuts.

- Yes I've emptied the trash. That's what initially got me so upset was dumping hundreds of MBs of stuff and not seeing any change on the available disk space.

- I did already find at least one offending app, which was actually a 3rd party driver. I just uninstalled it for now until they update it. Other than that the system doesn't even have much installed on it. I did notice the widgets taking up so much. I can't believe that something I look at maybe once or twice a day takes up so much memory.

- I will also try fsck'ing.

Thanks everyone for your help.

ddm

[Clivey]

FYI - my panther server goes up to 5Gb of VM some times... and regularly get over 3Gb on client (dependent on what's running).
Apple and MS recommend a minimum of 20% free disk space on a drive for continuing good service...
Goos luck.

[Drumhum]

I've experienced this behaviour before. You really really need to allow at least 10% breathing room on your disk. That 10% is a minimum. Free up the hard disk and run diskutilities, diskwarrior and everything should come back to normal. Fill up your disk and you'll see funny stuff happening no matter how hard you cross your fingers!!