EXCESSIVE SSD WRITES ........about 73.68 times the allowed limit.....

[Ginger Geek]

 

I recently bought and old HP z-440 given that for 200£ I got 18 cores and 64GB RAM in a complete system AND Hackintosh-able .... BUT the thing keeps freezing up. The only common factor I can find is in the Diagnostic reports of excessive disk writes around the time of each crash. Now I am not sure if this is Hardware or OS or maybe a config issue. I attach here complete EFI, diagnostic logs folder, IO Reg... [GUESS I WILL UPLOAD THESE LATER SINCE 10mb LIMIT]. Something to note, I could not get my board to work with an MX500 crucial SSD. Now I previously put this down to that fact that it was... well, an MX500 POS. Now not so sure since it works in my iMac and my rendering machine just fine. Slightly concerned that my hardware is faulty!

EFI.zip

 

 

..... EDIT: after working this out my writes were about 73.68 times the allowed limit..... 

Date/Time: 2024-11-03 18:36:02.441 +0000
End time: 2024-11-03 18:55:34.673 +0000
OS Version: macOS 15.1 (Build 24B83)
Architecture: x86_64h
Report Version: 53
Incident Identifier: 415E48C3-45B6-4B25-B016-AFC4C8444CF6

Data Source: Microstackshots
Shared Cache: 2DE8C81C-EE54-3099-8E26-F112966509C2 slid base address 0x7ff81263a000, slide 0x1263a000

Command: com.apple.MobileSoftwareUpdate.UpdateBrainService
Path: /private/var/db/*/com.apple.MobileSoftwareUpdate.UpdateBrainService
Identifier: com.apple.MobileSoftwareUpdate.UpdateBrainService
Version: 1.0 (1)
Build Version: 1134
Product Build Version: 24B83
Project Name: UpdateBrainAsset
Source Version: 2082040039000001
Resource Coalition: 47
On Behalf Of: 206 samples softwareupdated [252] (206 samples originated by UNKNOWN [2250])
Architecture: x86_64
PID: 2354

Event: disk writes
Action taken: none
Writes: 2147.50 MB of file backed memory dirtied over 1172 seconds (1831.97 KB per second average), exceeding limit of 24.86 KB per second over 86400 seconds
Writes limit: 2147.48 MB
Limit duration: 86400s
Writes caused: 2147.50 MB
Writes duration: 1172s
Duration: 1172.23s
Duration Sampled: 1168.54s (event starts 3.68s before samples)
Steps: 2256 (10.49 MB/step)

Hardware model: MacPro7,1
Active cpus: 36
HW page size: 4096
VM page size: 4096

OS Cryptex File Extents: 1

Heaviest stack for the target process:
206 start_wqthread + 15 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 7131) [0x7ff812a80bdb]
206 _pthread_wqthread + 261 (libsystem_pthread.dylib + 11326) [0x7ff812a81c3e]
206 ??? (libdispatch.dylib + 78897) [0x7ff8128ed431]

 

 

 

Edited November 3, 2024 by Ginger Geek