Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by gjsman-1000 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:43PM (#33026898)

MacBook Air, M1, 512GB, purchased December 2020, 16GB RAM, as you can tell quite hammered for a web developer who doesn't use the main JavaScript frameworks or Docker almost ever.

    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
    Critical Warning:                   0x00
    Temperature:                        30 Celsius
    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%
    Percentage Used:                    2%
    Data Units Read:                    139,890,354 [71.6 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 100,146,689 [51.2 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 1,957,345,039
    Host Write Commands:                1,121,330,045
    Controller Busy Time:               0
    Power Cycles:                       724
    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   85
    Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
    Error Information Log Entries:      0

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cnagesh on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:17AM (#33030871)

    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   85

What does this mean? and looks like it is very high compared to others in the list

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by gjsman-1000 on Friday September 30, 2022 @10:25AM (#33035269)

That’s my fault. I have two or three kernel extensions for different types of hard drive file systems and sometimes they react badly to disconnects or quirks. Apple’s Blu Ray UDF handler also needs work and likes occasionally crashing.

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:49PM (#33026980)

Thanks for sharing, that's a lot of reads/writes.

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