Hard drive space keeps vanishing

[i-sidd]

Hi I have macbook running 10.6.6 , i have almost 10gb space left on my hd. But I tried opening an embeded divx movies from a site and I have noticed that my hard drive space goes down to 1 or 2 gb while trying to play the movie. I shut down or restart and everything is back to normal.

Why is this happening? any ideas, how can i stop this.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Take a look at DiskInventory X, OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report or GrandPerspective to see where your HDD space went to.

Btw, it is recommenced to have at least 10% of the HDD's capacity unused.
You might have experienced some swapping of RAM, which takes away HDD capacity, due to the RAM copying content onto the HDD.

 

[i-sidd]

Why is that when I restart I get all the hard drive space back again. where does it go when trying to play a divx movie online, is it the buffering that taking up the space temporarily? why does not it release the space after i close the browser and only releases it after a restart.

Please suggest.... Ohh I am using firefox