![]() ![]() While your issue may not be OS version related, there are differences between versions, and sometimes to suggestion solution is operating system specific, so being in the correct forum matters.Īlso, if it matters, my Air uses the solid state HDD. Not sure, but I guess that means my problem might be version specific and therefore addressed better - HERE? Google search for "mac os x disable sleepimage" and you will find several articles on how you can disable the sleepimage.Īnd, no you will not be kicked off for posting a lot of relevant replies to your own thread. The sleepimage protects you from a dead battery. It is possible to stop the creation of the sleepimage, but that means if your Mac runs out of power while it is asleep or if you just keep working on it after the battery gets critically low, you will loose whatever you are working on. Otherwise you are going to grow the swapfiles. The ONLY way to stop the growth of the swapfiles is to not run so much concurrent apps, run apps that take less RAM, open fewer web pages at the same time, etc. If your Sleep Image is 4GB, then you have 4GB of RAM, and when you put your Mac to sleep, your RAM is copied to the Sleep Image. The Sleep Image is the exact size of your RAM. And that these swapfiles gets deleted every time you reboot. If you had actually read my reply above, you would have noticed I explicitly mentioned /var/vm/swapfile(s) (which happens to also be /private/var/vm/swapfile(s) - the magic of symbolic links). Your running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but you are posting in the Mountain Lion 10.8 forum. ![]() See the following article if you want to run it as root When using OmniDiskSweeper, or any utility that shows all your files. With respect to disk inventory utility, if it was not running as 'root', then it may not be seeing ALL the files on your system. Again, I'm not sure if Time Machine in Snow Leopard had this capability. ![]() These local backups will be flushed to the backup device the next time it is attached. ![]() All of which goes away after a reboot.ī) I am NOT sure if this applies to Snow Leopard (10.6.8), but recent versions of Time Machine will keep a local backup if you are not connected to your Time Machine disk or Time Capsule. Or you have added some browser plug-ins that are more memory intensive.Īll of this could contribute to more and more swapfile usage. And maybe you are keeping more web pages open at the same time. And web pages are getting more complex javascript that runs in your browser. Or you have changed the mix of apps you are running as you become better at doing what you like to do. The speed at which the swapfiles grow is a function of the apps you are running and how memory hungry they are.Īs time goes forward apps get more memory hungry, so if you have updated apps from when you first got your Macbook Air, that could be one explanation. When you reboot, these files are erased and new swapfiles started. The changes to /etc/pulse/nf did not seem necessary but I haven't tested thoroughly.įile /etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.A) As you run more and more concurrent apps, or the apps you use consume large amounts of memory, Mac OS X will page idle app memory to the /var/vm/swapfile(s). So if you find it doesn't work when you first boot but does after manual restart try adding ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30. Modified the file to delay startup of pulse and now it works. Managed to get sound from alsaplayer, removed all changes to /etc/pulse/default.pa and /etc/nf and started pulse as a user and it HDMI detected and can watch videos without hanging.Īdded this back to /etc/systemd/services, re-enabled, and it didn't work but after manual restart of pulse service as root the HDMI showed up again. I finally got an HDMI sound extractor to work with a 25w HDMI graphics card on the r620 but fiddling with /etc/pulse/default.pa default card settings didn't fix it. This solution has worked for me on several debian 11 servers but have a Dell r620 and r720 where the sound card causes the machine to hang after 2-3min of video. ![]()
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