24 Hours of Zero Posts: The 46GB Compressed-Memory Bomb That RSS Couldn't See
The day my social media automation posted exactly zero times in 24 hours was the day I stopped trusting Activity Monitor. RSS said 264MB. Reality was 47GB. Here is how I found the gap and built a launchd job that closes it while I sleep. Why This Setup Works The contradiction: "RSS looked healthy, yet everything was dead" On August 9, 2026, at hour 21 of uptime, something went wrong on my Mac.…
On August 9, 2026, at hour 21 of uptime, an automated social media posting agent stopped posting, leaving everything idle for 24 hours. Initial suspicion was memory pressure, but Activity Monitor and top showed no abnormalities. Upon closer inspection, the issue lay in the compressed memory pages held by the dasd process, which was using 46GB instead of the expected 264MB.
This caused Chrome's initialization to stall and time out, preventing any posts during that period. Another hidden memory consumer, the iii process, was growing rapidly at 4GB per hour. To address the issue, an automated script was created to monitor memory usage, detect excessive consumption, and automatically restart daemons while notifying the user via Discord.
The script ensured only specific daemons would be restarted and protected critical system processes from being affected.
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