M1 MBA huge disk usage

[h_ivanov]

Hello,

I own a 2020 MBA with M1 processor, running macOS 11.6.7 at the moment. I have noticed that a process called "syspolicyd" is reading an extremely huge amount of data (circa 1TB per week or even more). Then I decided to update to 11.6.7 but the behavior remained the same. I still haven't updated to Monterey because of complaints claiming that syspolicyd is utilizing 90-100% of the CPU in macOS 12. It would be great if you could help me figure out how to solve the problem and save the SSD.

Best regards!

 

[jdb8167]

Reading the SSD isn’t a problem writing is. Your attachments show almost no writes from syspolicyd so there’s nothing to worry about.

 

[curnalpanic]

So what did it write?