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Just checked on a Mac with 10 days uptime in Activity Monitor and Spotify has written 28.99GB and read 325MB. For comparison Chrome wrote 1.93GB, iCloud (cloudd
by 0xCMP 10y ago
Just checked on a Mac with 10 days uptime in Activity Monitor and Spotify has written 28.99GB and read 325MB. For comparison Chrome wrote 1.93GB, iCloud (cloudd) wrote 10.47GB, Mail 927.4 MB, and Slack 607.8MB.
- dictum 10y ago10h uptime here and Activity Monitor is reporting 28.7GB written.
- mikeash 10y agoI forget how long it's been running, but mine reports 947.99GB written! Holy cow!
- MikeKusold 10y agoYou can run `uptime` on both OS X and Linux to see how long a machine has been running.
- mikeash 10y agoThe relevant figure here would be how long Spotify had been running, wouldn't it? There's probably some way to get that info too, but of course I killed the app as soon as I saw what was going on, so it's too late! Edit: uptime does give it a firm upper bound, at least. My current uptime is a bit over 12 days. So that's an average of 80GB/day at least, more if I started Spotify sometime after boot.
- cjg_ 10y agoCan do it with ps aux | grep ' /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify$' | awk '{print $9}'
- mikeash 10y agoRight you are. I'll keep that in mind for next time, thanks.
- 0xAA55 10y agoVote this issue up if you have an account! https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Major-I-O-write-bytes-on-the-Spotify-Desktop-app-It-will-kill/idi-p/1476745 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Major-I-O-wr...
- mikeash 10y agoI tried, but instead it told me I couldn't, and there's this message: "We've seen some questions in our Community around the amount of written data using the Spotify client on desktop. These have been reviewed and any potential concerns have now been addressed in version 1.0.42, currently rolling out to all users." So... sounds like it's fixed? If so, good job on making a fuss, everybody!
- jrowley 10y agoYeah! Mine is 910GB and I only have a 256GB SSD. I guess that speaks to my uptime.
- pacofvf 10y agoUptime 36 days 112GB written, I listen music like 6h to 8h per weekday.
- JonathonW 10y agoOn a Mac I rebooted earlier today (a little under 4 hours uptime) and Spotify's showing 11.06 GB written in Activity Monitor. This is without having listened to anything at all today.
- Twirrim 10y agoSimilar story. 3-4 hour uptime, 9.6Gb written. Haven't listened to anything on it at all. That's nuts.
- jitix 10y ago2 days and 179+GB written while only 1.21GB was read!! This is on my Mac - I wonder whats the number for my Windows PC at home.
- arthurfm 10y agoFor me it was 212.5GB over the past 4 days according to Process Monitor. https://vgy.me/TbvxHh.png https://vgy.me/TbvxHh.png
- josephwegner 10y ago5 days uptime, 310GB I don't list to _that much_ music?!
- JoshGlazebrook 10y ago39 days uptime (I know), 206GB written, 5GB read. Mac.
- andytime 10y agoUp 9 days and it has written 440GB
- waterphone 10y ago12 days uptime, 367 GB written.
- ryanmaynard 10y agoMac here. 2d uptime. 54GB written. 255MB read.
- ppior 10y agoDoes spotify use daemon process on mac ? I had application installed but I didn't run it for a long time (ca 5 months). Is it possible that Spotify was silently writing massive data amounts to my drive without running Spotify application itself?
- cmurphycode 10y agoInteresting - seems like I'm the only one without this issue so far, so I thought I'd comment. Spotify launched 10 days ago, 127MB written, 1.29GB read. maybe relevant, I'm running Mavericks.
- davidsawyer 10y ago8 days uptime, 237GB written, 10GB read Pretty heavy usage, though.
- mschuster91 10y agoFunny enough for me it's right opposite. 6 days uptime, Chrome R 5.4GB/W 30GB (?!?!), launchd (R 643MB/W 24GB), kernel_task R 112MB/W 10GB, Cisco Jabber R 200MB/W 5GB. vs Spotify R 100MB/W 400MB What in blazes are the offending programs doing? If it were swap, then one should expect an 1:1 ratio between R and W, but that? Seriously?
- radicality 10y ago12GB written just opened couple of hours and haven't even listened to a single song :|