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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by blep-arsh on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:03PM (#26246137)
I've been looking at the Activity Monitor and disk writes for the kernel task are crazy high (hundreds of GBs per hour), especially when Rosetta is involved. The Rosetta daemon seems to use a lot of memory, likely causing excessive swapping. Another suspicious process is... Safari bookmark sync? Can't even image why it needs to write 10GB per hour.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by cozzyd on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:10PM (#26246181)
Sounds like 8 GB of RAM is not enough after all...
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by Reason077 on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:34AM (#26385493)
> "The Rosetta daemon seems to use a lot of memory, likely causing excessive swapping."

I haven't seen this. The rosetta daemon, oahd, is using only 1.3MB on my system (8GB M1 MacBook Air) and I have several large translated apps running. If it's stuck using lots of memory, I guess that's probably a bug.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by therouwboat on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:16AM (#26250002)
Its weird that people still have computers that use swap when 16 gigs of ram costs like 80 euros.
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