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One quintillion bytes?
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Weird... probably a bug as that is impossible. Of course, it could have been photoshopped but no, I'm not doubting you
No, no Ps. I hope it's nothing to worry about. I have little faith in my SSD these days (especially reading all the firmware problems, etc.)...
To me, it looks like it should be 18 MB.
Yet another secret Apple prototype out there? Virtually infinite storage anyone?
Anyways, like someone said, the bars don't work too well for me either.
Anyways, like someone said, the bars don't work too well for me either.
Looks like an overflow to me.
18.44674EB is the value that can be stored in an unsigned 64bit integer word, so it looks like it's using a 64bit word to store the size of the data and for whatever reason, the variable is overflowing and getting set to all 1s. I wonder whether, if you booted with the 32bit kernel, would it show the size as 4.29GB (the size that can be stored in a 32bit integer).
You should report it as a bug, it's probably just a display issue, but you never know.
18.44674EB is the value that can be stored in an unsigned 64bit integer word, so it looks like it's using a 64bit word to store the size of the data and for whatever reason, the variable is overflowing and getting set to all 1s. I wonder whether, if you booted with the 32bit kernel, would it show the size as 4.29GB (the size that can be stored in a 32bit integer).
You should report it as a bug, it's probably just a display issue, but you never know.
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Not so long ago, when having a clearout in the office I came across an HP pricelist from 1991. At that time, HP server memory was roughly £250 for a 4MB SIMM. (I'd guess the $ prices would have been roughly the same - $250). So the 16GB RAM that I have in my current system would have been £1,000,000, I paid £60 for it.
Prices are always on the rise. I payed $40 for 4KB (4,096 bytes) of RAM in 1980 and that was a bargain price. My company paid about $10,000 for 32KB of core memory for a DEC minicomputer in 1974. The 8GB of RAM in my iMac would be about $2,000,000,000 (and take up much more space) with that core memory.
Can you (and the rest of you that experience this bug) please file a report: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Hopefully the more people that do, the quicker it'll get fixed.
You got it! But it is more likely an "underflow." If the calculated value is negative, by even 1 byte, it would display as 18.4 EB.
Apple either needs to check for a negative value in the calculations and make it zero or needs to display signed values. At least the graph gets it right!
