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You can run `uptime` on both OS X and Linux to see how long a machine has been running.

• mikeash 10y ago
  The 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 ago
    Can do it with ps aux | grep ' /Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/MacOS/Spotify$' | awk '{print $9}'
    • mikeash 10y ago
      Right you are. I'll keep that in mind for next time, thanks.
      • 0xAA55 10y ago
        Vote 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 ago
          I 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!