macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 – Disk Space Rapidly Disappearing Due to System Processes on macbook pro m2

Thank you for your answer, Luis.

Somehow I doubt the 80GB free space could or more like should be the issue. It doesn't sound reasonable that on a 250GB hard drive, I would need to reserve and keep continuously free 100GB+ space for system processes. This just can't be right.

Here is the report.

In the meantime, the issue persists and I couldn't figure out what triggers it. I'm using my mbp as per usual and seemingly everything is okay until a moment when I start to receive messages that I'm running out of space. It doesn't happen when I run a particular program or perform something that I could connect this to, it happens randomly. If and when I restart the computer everything goes back to normal, I get back the free space, at least for some time, and then the whole thing starts over.

This issue started after the update to the current OS version, nothing else changed, nothing new was used, etc.

Thank you for the reply Owl-53. IMHO this explanation is not and can't be right.

This computer was purchased a little bit more than a year ago, brand new from the store. I used it without any issues for all this time, even with much less space on the hard drive.

• All of a sudden it starts to eat up the free space, only as much as I have (there is no exact free space requirement like it needs 50Gb and that's it).
• All this happens from one day to another and the only change that happened on the computer was an installed OS update, nothing else (no other program installed, no difference in use, etc).

I could understand sudden shrinking with the space if there was eg a hard drive failure and bad sectors would start to grow or whatsoever but to say 'sorry the OS randomly requires more space starting from today' just can't be right.

I'm quite positive if I had purchased an HDD with higher capacity, eg 1TB, still the same would happen (kernel would eat up all the space available until restart), it would have been just less noticeable as it would run out of space later. So I have serious doubts this is a normal operation.

Something triggers this and I'm here to find the root cause, not to get advice to solve it by buying a larger HDD so I won't notice that was not an issue ever before ÷) Thank you though for reading through the log!

Hey Luis, thank you for the reply.

OneDrive is a strange thing because it has been deleted some time ago (approx a year before this issue appeared). These daemons, however, keep popping up even after I deleted them (Library/LaunchDaemons). Do you have any idea why or how could I get rid of them permanently? Could this mess with the free space even after the app was deleted?

Regarding Library/Extensions:

• the two HP extension likely related to the printer driver. As it is an older printer (HP LaserJet Pro M127fn) certain functions don't work without it. Do you think it is safe just to delete these extensions from this folder?
• Jabra application has been deleted some time ago, I assume it is safe to delete this extension too
• SXUPTP I have no idea what it is. Should i just delete it?

Thank you!

Somehow idleassetsd is back and now they are competing with kernel which one is faster to melt away my free space. This is not good.

Can I roll back to the previous version of OS? If so, how do I do that?