Mac weird message
The world of computers is full of weird errors, and Mac OS X its not free of those stupid errors. As you can see in the screenshot, there is an error window telling something like “The bootdisk is almost full” near the harddrive properties showing 96GiB free.
The error started to appear in the afternoon and some java applications stopped working. Then I realized that when I run the application Im developing, the application crash and that error appears. Why a user-space application can make that screen appear? After that I checked the harddrive, but the disk utility froze the system. I used that utility from the boot dvd and no errors were reported, but trying again in the OS: all the system frozen.
I reinstalled, and I was able to check my harddrive for errors without the disk utility crashing and freezing the system. But I got again the “low space” window. I deleted some cache from the libraries I’m using, and I got rid from the error.
But Im still thinking about that user-space / error window link. Is Mac OS user-space application errors resistant? I guess there is a leak hidden out there (Like X-Files)
Now its time to kill some mosquitoes! They’re invading my room!
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betabug said,
2007-11-12 @ 9.27 am
Hey there!
I would say that your application produced a core dump or wrote to disk when it got out of control. It happened to me before. Also keep in mind that if your app eats up all the memory, the swap file will fill up the disk too!
You can set up Mac OS X to not save core dumps (google for it, dunno how right now) and you should check what your app is doing with temporary files or allocation of RAM when it dies.
Have fun!
graffic said,
2007-11-12 @ 11.38 pm
In that time I checked everything and the java VM didn’t leave anything to see. It seemed to be from some configuration in the networking libraries I was using. Perhaps it sounds strange but I deleted all the configuration and everything worked flawlessly.
The java VM is limited in memory consuming, so it should die (my tomcat+axis configuration usually dies because that+classloader memory leaks). I didn’t check it again, now I use netbeans 6.0 beta 2 but still java 1.5 in Leopard and except that spaces hates netbeans, no other problems arose.