Free Space Fluctuation.

marshall banana on 26/10/2008 at 21:53

This is freaking me out. At some random moment, my computer said that I was low on disk space. I thought to myself "What the hell is this thing talking about? I've got plenty of space!" Then it says that I have less than the recommended 200 MB of space, so I checked the free space I had on my C drive. Lo and behold, I had 94 MB of space left. I looked again a couple seconds later, and I had 74 MB. Then is kept getting lower, until it reached around 60 MB. Then it started going back up, hundreds at a time, until it reached 1.9 Gigs. Seriously, what the hell?

Kolya on 26/10/2008 at 22:58

Old games (win98 era) will frequently misread free disk space. Not sure how your OS can be so off though. How did you check it?

And here I was hoping this was about the game Free Space...

marshall banana on 26/10/2008 at 23:22

I checked it through My Computer, looking at the properties of my C drive.

TBE on 26/10/2008 at 23:30

Do you have Eraser installed? Or some sort of defragmenter?

marshall banana on 27/10/2008 at 00:03

I don't have Eraser, and the only defragmenter I know of is the one that comes with Windows.

dj_ivocha on 27/10/2008 at 00:34

It's possible that either your page file is set to automatic, or some game or application crashed and the windows crash logging tool (Dr. Watson) made a dump of the memory, which it then deleted for whatever reason. So check your virtual memory settings first and set your page file to a fixed size (usually 1.5x your RAM).

Nameless Voice on 27/10/2008 at 10:42

More likely is that Windows automatically deleted system restore information to free up disk space because you were running so low.