Mid-2009 MBP HardDrive Bleeding

[graemeh88]

Is it normal for my MBP to bleed extremely large amounts of hard drive memory? On restart, my hard drive is at ~105 GB, but if i leave it running for a couple hours, that number drops to ~85 GB. A couple hours after that, its down to ~55 GB. During this time, i dont download anything, just watch videos, some microsoft office, and some we browsing.

 

[mrfoof82]

Is it normal for my MBP to bleed extremely large amounts of hard drive memory? On restart, my hard drive is at ~105 GB, but if i leave it running for a couple hours, that number drops to ~85 GB. A couple hours after that, its down to ~55 GB. During this time, i dont download anything, just watch videos, some microsoft office, and some we browsing.

You could have an application with a serious memory leak that's causing your swap file to grow at a fierce rate. Hence why it recovers -- when that memory is finally deallocated, OS X starts trimming the swap file.

 

[graemeh88]

You could have an application with a serious memory leak that's causing your swap file to grow at a fierce rate. Hence why it recovers -- when that memory is finally deallocated, OS X starts trimming the swap file.

is there a way to find out what application would be doing that?