1/ Codex is quietly killing your SSD. It writes diagnostic logs to...
Kai@hqmank
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Jun 22, 2026
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Codex is quietly killing your SSD.
It writes diagnostic logs to disk non-stop, even when you're not
doing anything. Your SSD has a write limit. Codex is burning through it in the background.
One command fixes it š
Codex is quietly killing your SSD.
It writes diagnostic logs to disk non-stop, even when you're not
doing anything. Your SSD has a write limit. Codex is burning through it in the background.
One command fixes it š
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I checked my machine today. 628 MB of useless logs. 78,000+ TRACE
entries, internal garbage I'll never read. Built up over a few days
of light use.
The file looks small but SQLite keeps flushing writes to disk
underneath. The drive wears out while the file size barely moves.
RUST_LOG=warn doesn't help. The logging pipeline ignores it. CLI,
Desktop, VSCode plugin, all affected. Bug open since April, no fix
yet.
I checked my machine today. 628 MB of useless logs. 78,000+ TRACE
entries, internal garbage I'll never read. Built up over a few days
of light use.
The file looks small but SQLite keeps flushing writes to disk
underneath. The drive wears out while the file size barely moves.
RUST_LOG=warn doesn't help. The logging pipeline ignores it. CLI,
Desktop, VSCode plugin, all affected. Bug open since April, no fix
yet.
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I quit Codex, ran one command, and verified:
sqlite3 ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite "CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS
block_log_inserts BEFORE INSERT ON logs BEGIN SELECT RAISE(IGNORE);
END;"
This adds a rule that silently drops all new log entries. Your
conversations are in a different file, completely safe.
Tested it, output 0. Nothing gets written anymore. Codex works fine.
github.com/openai/codex/iā¦
I quit Codex, ran one command, and verified:
sqlite3 ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite "CREATE TRIGGER IF NOT EXISTS
block_log_inserts BEFORE INSERT ON logs BEGIN SELECT RAISE(IGNORE);
END;"
This adds a rule that silently drops all new log entries. Your
conversations are in a different file, completely safe.
Tested it, output 0. Nothing gets written anymore. Codex works fine.
github.com/openai/codex/iā¦
