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In article <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us>  
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
> I have an HSD scanner at the end of my SCSI chain.  Since I don't use it
> all the time and it gets pretty hot, I like to turn it off when I am not
> using it.  When I had Rel2.0 I did not seem to have a problem with this.
> Recently I installed 2.1 and now the system will go along for a couple
> of days and then suddenly fill up swap space.  It may be that this is a
> problem with 2.1 which is totally unrelated to the scanner but if I
> leave the scanner on swap doesn't seem to fill up.  Maybe I haven't
> waited long enough.  Anyhow I would appreciate any info on this.

I recently started having a similar problem.  I attached a Bernoulli  
Transportable 90 drive to my NeXT and used it for a couple days without  
any trouble.  The trouble started when I tried to eject the disk.  The  
manual says to drag the disk icon to the Recycler and only to press the  
drive's eject button when the disk disappears from the File Viewer.  Mine  
wouldn't.  I couldn't figure if the manual was wrong or what but, being  
impatient, I finally pressed the button.  The disk icon stayed... it  
stayed when I logged out and back in even.  It only went away when I  
turned the NeXT off and then on.  I put the Bernoulli disk back in and  
everything seemed fine.

Then next day I found the hard disk was full.  I had 100MB free the day  
before.  I poked around a little looking for what had grown so huge but  
then thought of the Bernoulli disk.  I ejected it (same problem as before)  
and then turned the machine off and on.  And there was now 100MB free.  I  
put the disk back in and there was a sudden drop to 65MB.  It seemed to  
stay there so I didn't worry too much.  I came in the next day and again  
no space on the hard drive.  Again, I ejected the disk (it worked right  
this time!) and restarted the computer and the 100MB was back.  I put the  
disk back in for a short time but the HD space dropped to about 80MB so I  
ejected it.  All day the space on the HD has steadily dropped.  Now its  
45MB and dropping.

The above posting sounded strangely familiar and so I checked my  
/private/vm/swapfile.  It is 58MB and seems to have grown since the last  
time I checked.  Maybe something else is going on but there seems to be a  
connection between this device and the HD space.  I'm stilling waiting to  
hear from Bernoulli but thought someone else might have a suggestion...

Thanks,
Marianne Guntow, The University of Chicago