kernel_task has been writing to the SSD like a mad man, it has > 2TB written in a month with 49TB Disk writes till date ( my MacBook is 8 months old) At this rate the SSD would die soon considering SSD's have limited disk writes. How do I stop this from happening / will my machine be fine?
I've already contacted AppleCare and followed their troubleshooting steps ( SMC and PRAM reset, New User, Clean Install, etc.) to no avail.
This is super frustrating with no idea on what's writing to the disk so much since kernel_task can be used by multiple system processes for handling disk IO.
System Details: MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) 8GB Ram Running Catalina 10.15.7
I'm a system's administrator so I'm comfortable with the command line and any other technical tasks which anyone would require me to do to help debug this frustrating issue.
I've already contacted AppleCare and followed their troubleshooting steps ( SMC and PRAM reset, New User, Clean Install, etc.) to no avail.
This is super frustrating with no idea on what's writing to the disk so much since kernel_task can be used by multiple system processes for handling disk IO.
System Details: MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports) 8GB Ram Running Catalina 10.15.7
I'm a system's administrator so I'm comfortable with the command line and any other technical tasks which anyone would require me to do to help debug this frustrating issue.