farber@pcpond.cis.upenn.edu. (David J. Farber) (06/12/90)
when I use icon on big images I routinly loose 4 meg of disk will I reboot. Just wondering where that goes. Dave David Farber; Prof. of CIS and EE, U of Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Tele(215): 898-9508(off); 274-8292 (home); FAX: 274-8293; Cellular: 870-0175 "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- R. P. Feynman
hannum@chopin.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) (06/14/90)
In article <25937@netnews.upenn.edu> farber@pcpond.cis.upenn.edu. (David J. Farber) writes:
when I use icon on big images I routinly loose 4 meg of disk will I reboot. Just
wondering where that goes.
(No grammar flames here ... B-)
Icon is somewhat of a memory hog. You should find that the swapfile (in
/private/vm/swapfile) grew by about 4 megs. Rebooting the machine reduces
the swapfile to its normal 20 megs.
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