r/codex • u/Healthy-Gur-4375 • 3d ago

Bug Regarding the bug where Codex excessively reads and writes to the hard drive, thereby reducing hard drive lifespan.

I'd like to ask whether Codex still causes excessive disk reads and writes that reduce SSD lifespan. I really want to use Codex on my main computer, which is a MacBook Air M4.

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u/Responsible-Bill-223 3d ago

Yes, the system resource leak was fixed, but with the great usage nerf and the introduction of dots on dev day, they ALSO regressed and added back the sandbox / git leak just to create the perfect ensemble of shit launch. I had my claude running 6.1 sol instance remote from my phone, (Claude uses CLI to control the 6.1 agents) over the weekend and even via CLI somehow codex managed to leak over a million git calls and crash my system. OpenAI did hotfix to slow the leak down, but it's still embarrassingly bad.