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I was just looking at Disk tab of Activity Monitor, and the numbers just don't make any sense, unless Mac apps are all throwing gobs of bits at the disk for no

I was just looking at Disk tab of Activity Monitor, and the numbers just don't make any sense, unless Mac apps are all throwing gobs of bits at the disk for no particular reason. For example, in two days of uptime it says the SafariBookmarksSyncAgent has written 1.94 GB to disk. I haven't added any bookmarks to my machine in those two days and I haven't used Reading List, so how is that even possible?

brokenmachine 6y ago
A bug? Why isn't that possible? You seem to have excluded the possibility of a bug despite having evidence that one exists.
- spuz 6y ago
  I don't think ChrisLTD is excluding the possibility of a bug - he is just asking how it's possible that a process has written so much to disk.
  - ChrisLTD 6y ago
    Yes, thank you.
spuz 6y ago
As other's have stated, it's possible that SafariBookmarksSyncAgent has a process that regularly writes to memory (object creation and garbage collection) and that memory is being paged to disk.