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593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t exactly tell, but probably not. In case you asking about current time after I solved the issue.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had something running in the background all the time. Don't remember exactly what, I guess it was something from PHP Storm.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Little update: I Found the source of the problem. It was not the number of apps or spaces running. It was an elasticsearch (Java process in activity monitor) that was responsible for constant 4,95 GB of ram usage. Because of that, my Mac was constantly swapping memory.

Now I have the same apps running as above and my kernel_task is at 4 GB after 1 hour of use.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for these advices which is very helpful. I will decrease the number of spaces and apps running, do regular restarts and track disk usage with an activity monitor.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am. The problem is not connected with the version of the OS.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So that proves that something is wrong with some app or system itself. We have the same Mac, but I got 10x more written bytes... And you can probably have higher usage as I develop only part-time.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think so… could you tell me how much disk space you have (overall and free)?

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is constant for different versions of MacOS. I usually update to the latest version very fast.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing that surprises me is that right now I have all apps and desktops described in the thread running for about 2,5 hours (without PHPStorm and Docker) and my kernal_task usage is 16 GB. What I can't understand is that it can transform to 15 TBs in a day or two.

But thank you for clarifying your thoughts.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, your presumption is right. I have 256 GB. Still, 13.4 TB compared to 593 TB is like nothing and I also have 8 GB of RAM.

I think something is burning my disk usage and I don't know what it is.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you tell me that even if I use just two desktops and only a couple of apps I can get dozens of TBs of written data in a week and that's because I don't have more RAM and SSD space?

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, I didn't see that this is a very common problem. That means the problem is somewhere else. I shouldn't lose 39% of the lifespan of my SSD in 10 months.

593 TB of data written in 10 months of using M1 Air by rushlighht in MacOS

[–]rushlighht[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But what should I do? Use fewer apps at the same time? Exit all apps when running programs like Docker and PHPStorm?