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a virus???

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soundmann18

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Apr 13, 2005
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My powerbook g4 is losing memory. If I switch from one thing to another on finder, it loses .1 MB / second or so. How can I figure out what is writing to the memory?

The weird part about this is that I haven't been online in months on it, I plugged it into the network at work today to try to get online, but I couldn't get online without a password or configuring it correctly or what have you.
 
soundmann18 said:
My powerbook g4 is losing memory. If I switch from one thing to another on finder, it loses .1 MB / second or so. How can I figure out what is writing to the memory?

The weird part about this is that I haven't been online in months on it, I plugged it into the network at work today to try to get online, but I couldn't get online without a password or configuring it correctly or what have you.
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It can't be a virus can it if you havn't been online in ages?

Plus it's a Mac....


Which process is it that's expanding? You should be able to spot it in Activity Monitor...
 
I found something in my recent activity folder called "pipedaemon" i didn't like the way that sounded, so i put it in trash and restarted, now i'm not losing any memory any more, but i can't figure out what is written to my computer, I think i've lost atleast 4 GB today - i didn't notice I was losing memory until iTunes told me there was nothing available, and i think I had 6 gb free last time I used this. right now i have 156.7 MB available.
 
Benjamin said:
You mean hard drive space right? if so it is probably just allocating swap space and or cache space.
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activity monitor has me at 5% usage right now, and that extra couple of gb has not showed up
 
ok, i just noticed that i have 4.5 GB of VM, but 1 GB of free System Memory, can I change that around some?
 
Take it to the local apple store and get them to fit more RAM...

Seriously though, download Disk Inventory X and nail down that file that's eating your hard drive.
 
g4 powerbook, already maxed out with 1.25 gb, whatever it was stopped for now atleast, next time i'm online with this i'll see what I can do- thanks for the fast replies everyone
 
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