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I accidentally discovered something similar as well, I saw my Disk usage was 30TB in the past weeks on my MacBook, I thought that is abnormal. Most of my work are browsing, and Editor coding. Turns out I had too many Tabs in Safari, and my Mac was out of memory constantly doing swapping. I was doing anywhere from 100GB to few hundred GB write per day.

If anyone has a easy solution to this would be much appreciated. Right now I a just checking every few days to see if I did something silly that causes lots of paging. There was a time I don't think I need 32GB of Memory, now I think there is a real need.




>If anyone has a easy solution to this would be much appreciated.

-use different browser, Vivaldi supports suspending and lazy tab loading

-add more ram, in your apple case it probably means buying new laptop


On Linux I set the vm.min_free_kbytes on my laptops so they crash something instead of swapping until pull the plug. Maybe XNU has an analogous knob?




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