4.0gb "sleepimage" file

[bored911]

hey guys, i am looking for space on my hdd, and i have found a file labeled "sleepimage" in /private/var/vm

should it be this big? just wondering because it sounded odd

 

[Eidorian]

It should be the same size as your installed RAM. Don't mess with it. It's needed to sleep and hibernate OS X.

You could turn it off though.

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

That file is deleted when you turn off your Mac, but is then recreated the first time you sleep your Mac after a reboot.

If you want to stop it from being created, change your Mac's sleep mode (which has the added benefit of drastically decreasing the time it takes your computer to sleep). Check out this article: http://www.macworld.com/article/53471/2006/10/sleepmode.html

 

[misterredman]

That file is deleted when you turn off your Mac, but is then recreated the first time you sleep your Mac after a reboot.

If you want to stop it from being created, change your Mac's sleep mode (which has the added benefit of drastically decreasing the time it takes your computer to sleep). Check out this article: http://www.macworld.com/article/53471/2006/10/sleepmode.html

You can also use this:

http://www.jinx.de/SmartSleep.html