Huge VM size after restart...

[Fleetwood Mac]

I think I have a problem with my VM.

There's 70GB free on my MacBook's 250GB HD, but nearly 50GB of that is occupied by VM. The screenshot was taken immediately after startup, and as you can see there's loads of free memory. I wanted to edit something in iMovie, but I'm not going to have enough free space with this huge VM. What's the problem here?

 

[Chandler Adaway]

Just the perks of having a new computer i guess.

Looks like every app is taking about 1gb of VM.

I don't know what to tell you..

Sorry.

 

[ElectricSheep]

There's 70GB free on my MacBook's 250GB HD, but nearly 50GB of that is occupied by VM.

Actually no. As you can see in the screenshot you posted, the swap size is zero, so no additional space is being consumed on your hard drive by VM.

 

[merl1n]

Yes, don't panic. This is normal. Mine reads about the same VM size as well.

 

[Fleetwood Mac]

Actually no. As you can see in the screenshot you posted, the swap size is zero, so no additional space is being consumed on your hard drive by VM.

Yes, don't panic. This is normal. Mine reads about the same VM size as well.

I'm more irritated than panicked. I had 70GB free or more free since I installed leopard How could it drop to 10GB in one day? I'm seriously out of space here, I have no idea what's taking up the space.

 

[NoOneButMe]

I'm more irritated than panicked. I had 70GB free or more free since I installed leopard How could it drop to 10GB in one day? I'm seriously out of space here, I have no idea what's taking up the space.

Use Disk Inventory X to look to see what's taking up space.