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cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

I did a quick search earlier and it seems these are informational only and not necessarily persistent warnings. Some discussion suggested that some unsupported requests to the disk can result in these, but I don't know for sure.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Neovim 0.8 Released

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    vim/vim is licensed under the Vim License

    There are no restrictions on using or distributing an unmodified copy of the software. Parts of the software may also be distributed, but the license text must always be included. For modified versions a few restrictions apply. The license is GPL compatible, you may compile the software with GPL libraries and distribute it.

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Source, if anyone wants to dig deeper: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/vim-license.txt

Unsure why I'm being downvoted but okay.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Neovim 0.8 Released

fzf.vim works better, in my subjective opinion, but I haven't configured telescope a lot.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Neovim 0.8 Released

Treesitter integration is a bit easier in neovim IMHO (but I haven't tried to make it work with vim too much.)

Newer plugin development seems to be much more on the nvim side than vim as well. (Although I do feel fzf is superior to telescope, at least out of the box.)

I'm happy neovim exists, it rekindled vim development.

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the bus factor 1 on vim?

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

This is exactly the kind of comparison that prompted me to post this topic. I suppose macOS just uses the SSD far more.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

How does your workload look?

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Thanks.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Thanks for sharing, is this a 1TB drive?

Going by the percentage used, looks like an expected lifespan of 1200TBW.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Power On Hours seem to indicate the disk has been on for a good chunk of time, so I would think you're doing fine. Percentage used says 6%, so that seems decent too.

What model SSD is this?

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

I think most folks will.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

What is your RAM/SSD config?

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

This is why I asked here. Most folks don't seem to mind it, but it is an order of magnitude, if not more, higher disk usage than linux.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Is there a noticeable difference in battery life usage with option 1?

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

I think that's because `power on` hours is talking about the disk being in the power on state, not the rest of the machine.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Wow, that's a well used machine!

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

> Addendum. I just wrote 1.7GB in the last 30mins while reading HN on Firefox, and a few other web pages.

Thanks for sharing this. I need to see if linux does this.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Is there a way to look up that error log?

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Perhaps one day when Apple prices the RAM upgrades reasonably..

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Thank you for the data point, and your usage on an M1 will probably yield crazier numbers. This is why I asked, Apple silicon machines look like they're using the disk far more than older macs.

cool_hw | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

I noticed that on my linux machine the available spare threshold number is 10% too.

Thank you for posting, this (and the sibling posts and some google searching) confirms to me that older macs were not using disks this much for the same tasks.

I still may be wrong about this, but I am yet to see a counterpoint from Apple Silicon machines.