[Hidden-tech] Mac 10.4 Questions

[Lynn Nichols]

Hey, let's not start a flame war here. Perhaps when the folks at 
Diversified recommended that I leave 50 gigs free, they were referring 
to 15% of the total formatted space on my particular drive (as they had 
just replaced my hard drive).

Lynn

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David Haines wrote:

> Well, that claim about 50 gigs is akin to saying, "you need to have 6" 
> rims for your car tires" - an absolutely meaningless metric in the 
> absence of any coherent context.
> It's critical to have at least (a real-world minimum of) 15 % free of 
> the total formatted space of your drive, but then we start to look at 
> how much swap space gets set aside (taking up/needing additional drive 
> space) , which will depend on how much RAM you have installed.
> Some drive space will always be used for virtual memory, as it's always on.