Bleachbit is draining my memory?

Heroing · 2017-07-09 22:09:23

Every time i use bleachbit it starts taking up gigs on my hard drive i have no idea how to get it back? any suggestions or help ? thanks!

graysky · 2017-07-09 23:22:00

Heroing wrote:

Every time i use bleachbit it starts taking up gigs on my hard drive i have no idea how to get it back? any suggestions or help ? thanks!

No idea what you're talking about. Post the output of something to support your assertion.

Heroing · 2017-07-09 23:42:32

graysky wrote:

Heroing wrote:
Every time i use bleachbit it starts taking up gigs on my hard drive i have no idea how to get it back? any suggestions or help ? thanks!
No idea what you're talking about. Post the output of something to support your assertion.

I dont think theres a way to show you it...but after I used bleach bit one of my drives went from 13.8gb to 11gb ?

graysky · 2017-07-09 23:44:55

Your original post read as if running the program took up extra space. Depending on the settings you used, losing files (ie saving space) is the expected result. Is this thread for real?

Last edited by graysky (2017-07-09 23:45:05)

Heroing · 2017-07-09 23:47:14

graysky wrote:

Your original post read as if running the program took up extra space. Depending on the settings you used, losing files (ie saving space) is the expected result. Is this thread for real?

you must be confused af...shouldnt the program free up space and not take up space after use??

buntolo · 2017-07-10 05:33:35

When you've memory issue, post here the output of

ps aux --sort -rss

NOTE: ps aux will just give us a general idea of the situation, as it's not accurate.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/131 … or-process

seth · 2017-07-10 06:01:42

We don't know what he has.
He touched RAM, disk usage, capacity and free space - not even naming the disk in particular or how he obtained the data.

For the storage situation, run this before and after bleachshit

df -h

That said:
https://lwn.net/Articles/313679/
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/ … bleachbit/

glyons · 2017-07-10 11:53:18

This can potentially happen when you run system.freediskspace (cleaner.option).

from FAQ
Q: Why does BleachBit take a long time (more than five minutes) and fill up by hard drive?
A: You enabled the option to System - Free disk space to wipe free disk space for privacy. This works basically by creating a large, empty file (see Shred files and wipe disks for more information). When the hard drive is full, the file will be deleted immediately, and there will be no net change in disk space (you will be back where you started). It is generally recommended you disable this option.

I think whats happened here is the program was interrupted or crashed somehow.
Rebooting the PC should fix it I think. If not you have to manually delete this file
https://www.bleachbit.org/forum/wipe-fr … -my-system

Last edited by glyons (2017-07-10 11:57:46)

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#1 2017-07-09 22:09:23

Bleachbit is draining my memory?

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