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FindDiskKiller
See which apps are hammering your Mac's disk
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See which apps are hammering your Mac's disk
81 followers
FindDiskKiller is a native macOS disk activity monitor that reveals which apps and AI coding agents are driving reads and writes. Track per-process disk I/O, CPU and network activity, inspect live file access, trace folders, and view SMART/NVMe drive health. Completely free and open source.
They’ve made AI coding agents completely opaque about on-disk activity. You see either the fan spinning, an out of space warning, or a build taking ages, but you can't actually see it doing anything. I like that this tool is focused strictly on attribution and does not aspire to be another ubiquitous system monitoring tool. The fact that this is open source is also kind of important - if you actually found AI-driven processes that are eating up gigabytes, you’d want to know what precisely that process is looking at.
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@ra5tadark You nailed exactly what I was going for — not another system monitor, just clear attribution for disk activity that AI agents keep invisible. And being open source felt like the only honest way to build that trust. Thanks for this.
honesty about the current overhead being more than you'd like is appreciated, most launches would just dodge that question. hoping the leaner version ships soon, would love to leave it running all day without a second thought
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@omri_ben_shoham1 I really appreciate you noticing that — dodging the question never felt like an option.
Just shipped an optimized version that should be noticeably lighter, and I'm still chipping away at further improvements. More practical analysis features are in the pipeline too. Thanks for the support — it means a lot.
Finally something that shows which of my AI coding agents is hammering the SSD without permission. The live file access view is genuinely useful for catching rogue processes I didn't even know were running.
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@adam_rao Thank you — catching those sneaky background processes is exactly the reason I built this. Really glad it's already proving useful for you.
Finally something that shows which AI agent is hammering my SSD during long refactors. The per-process I/O view is genuinely useful and it runs light in the background.
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@amberleee Really appreciate that — keeping it lightweight was a priority from the start, so I'm glad that's holding up for you. Thanks for the kind words.