44.66 GB free on Startup Disk, but "Disk Full Alert"!?!?

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Tiger on my Dual G5 with 1 GB RAM is complaining about a full startup disk (named 'System'), although Finder reports 44.66GB free, and a 'df -k' reports lots of free disk space:

Last login: Wed Oct 11 10:00:12 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
MH-Dual-G5:~ heinm$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 81574720 34488188 46830532 42% /
devfs 104 104 0 100% /dev
fdesc 1 1 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 512 512 0 100% /.vol
/dev/disk1s5 192557464 178860236 13697228 93% /Volumes/Data
/dev/disk0s5 110851712 38454016 72397696 35% /Volumes/Working
/dev/disk2 52297664 4649728 47647936 9% /Volumes/User
automount -nsl [166] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [186] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [186] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
MH-Dual-G5:~ heinm$

Any ideas?
 
/Volumes/Data is one of my additional partitions where I keep all my data on, seperated from the OS, the applications, and for easier backup.
 
Okay, that seems to have done the trick: changing from dynamically growing swap files to a 4GB static one (modify /etc/rc accordingly)!

Since then not one "Disk Full Alert", and the system performance did even increase! :)
 
If you have 1GB of RAM, and a swap file that wants to grow, then you may want to consider adding more RAM.
 
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