What is happening with the MBA M1 SSD usage?

A huge amount of gigabytes is written to the SSD of my MacBook Air M1 every day by the kernel_task process.
I got an average of 122 gigabytes written per day!!! 
For 50 days of using the MacBook, 6 (SIX!!!) terabytes have already been written. 
What is it, Apple? Are you going to fix this? Was this done on purpose to make SSDs die faster? 
This is absolutely unacceptable!


Posted on Mar 1, 2021 11:16 AM

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Posted on Mar 1, 2021 1:03 PM

What sort of use is your MBA used?


How much RAM is on your system and how much swap is being used daily

(view in Activity Monitor/Memory)?


I have had mine for ~90 days and have only had a total 2,8 TB writes

and likely most of that was in the early part.


Today, fired the system up @5:30 AM, surfed a variety of news sites

this site, took a short 45 min. break and started working on some

embedded code development until 3:30 PM and have only had

10 GB written and 1.6 GB of that was Time Machine backups which

don't count since those are writes to the external drive.


I suggest installing Etrecheck from the App Store and posting the

results here, (use the additional text button at the bottom

of these windows to add the result). Perhaps we users here may identify

a culprit causing the system to run amok.


That number of rights should not be normal.

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Mar 1, 2021 1:03 PM in response to Bagasl

What sort of use is your MBA used?


How much RAM is on your system and how much swap is being used daily

(view in Activity Monitor/Memory)?


I have had mine for ~90 days and have only had a total 2,8 TB writes

and likely most of that was in the early part.


Today, fired the system up @5:30 AM, surfed a variety of news sites

this site, took a short 45 min. break and started working on some

embedded code development until 3:30 PM and have only had

10 GB written and 1.6 GB of that was Time Machine backups which

don't count since those are writes to the external drive.


I suggest installing Etrecheck from the App Store and posting the

results here, (use the additional text button at the bottom

of these windows to add the result). Perhaps we users here may identify

a culprit causing the system to run amok.


That number of rights should not be normal.

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