From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Undoubtedly someone is leaking memory fast and eating the swap file.  On
W2K the Task Manager's process tab will show you mem usage on a per process
basis.  I imagine XP is similar.  Locate and expunge the offending
gorpware, I doubt its something in the XP ship group.

"Ross.Cassell"  wrote in message
news:b09127.919817{at}harborwebs.com...
> Hello All!
>
> SYSTEM:
>
> AMD Athlon 1.1ghz Processor, 1 GIG of Ram
>
> 2 HDD's in system, both 80gigger, both formatted to NTFS, first drive is a
> single partition, second disc is partitioned into 3 drives.
>
> Issue is with C drive, including OS and installed programs, I am looking at
> about 12gig of installed Data.
>
> I have GOBACK 3.2 installed, Internal Windows System Restore turned off.
>
> OS = Windows XP Pro, Sp1 and all hotfixes, sans the MS JVM.
>
> System was clean installed about a month ago.
>
> I woke up one morning this week to find the little balloon pop up in the
> systray telling me I was out of disk space on drive C.
>
> Knowing that was a lie, a quick perusal of the drive didnt reveal anything,
so
> I went into disk management and told the system to do a chkdsk of C and to
> automatically correct any errors. {reboot}
>
> Chkdsk didnt find anything and when it was done rebooting, I had my 60+ gigs
of
> free space back.
>
> But when I get home from work, I am down to 40gigs of free space, something
is
> eating space.
>
> Any clues as to what it could be, anyone seen this before.
>
> FWIW the system is sitting behind both Zonealarm Pro and a NAT
firewall/router.
>
> ==
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