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 ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:53PM (#33027803)

I hold the record for "unsafe shutdowns."

One reason, is that I am constantly using Xcode, which is a bug farm, and SourceSafe used to crash like crazy.

Also, some of the apps I'm developing don't start off, perfect. I spend a lot of time crashing.

The advent of the M1 seems to have ushered in a new threading system. The threads act weird, now (look at how long it takes to resolve your stack, on a breakpoint). I'm pretty sure it really doesn't like crashes.

And I stopped playing Borderlands 3, because it liked to crash hard.

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by smoldesu on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:56PM (#33027837)

> And I stopped playing Borderlands 3, because it liked to crash hard.

In all fairness, it also does this on underpowered Windows/Linux hardware. It really is just a poorly made game, not Wine/Apple's fault here.

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:20PM (#33029673)

Not SourceSafe. SourceTree.

I did use SourceSafe, but it has been many moons.

In any case, SourceTree just released an update that seems to have fixed all the crashes.

Xcode still has some issue with the source code analyzer. Sometimes, it just hangs. In some cases, it’s not force-quittable.

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by alyandon on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:01PM (#33027898)

Yeah, that'd definitely do it. I'm really interested in knowing if people see that stat going up without crashing/power loss.

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